cmus-bundler

Plugin manager for C* Music Player

• Demo
• Overview
• Dependencies
• Installation
• Configuring rc file
• Preinstall bundles
• Showcases
• Debug
• Known plugins
• Bugs/Issues

Demo

Overview

cmus is awesome crossplatform cli player. it supports plugins and colorschemes like vim does.

cmus-bundler is plugins manager for cmus. like vim plugin managers are.

Dependencies

• cmus
• nodejs
• npm
• git

Installation

$ npm install -g cmus-bundler

$ cmus-bundler #make sure bundler installed successfuly

Usage: cmus-bundler [option]
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Configuring cmus rc file

To communicate with bundler daemon use cmus built-in command shell. In the rc file it'll look like:

shell cmus-bundler <command>

Run daemon (required):

shell cmus-bundler start

Set cmus-bundler as a status_display_program (optional):

set status_display_program=cmus-bundler

Available options

start: starts bundler daemon. required command.

shell cmus-bundler start [debug [debug_events]]

# examples:
# shell cmus-bundler start debug
# shell cmus-bundler start debug info plugin status_program

set: sets runtime variable. all variables pass to status programs as environment variables.

shell cmus-bundler set <key> <value>

# examples:
# shell cmus-bundler set LASTFM_USER my_username
# shell cmus-bundler set LASTFM_PASSWORD my_password

plugin: installs plugin to ~/.cmus/plugins.

shell cmus-bundler plugin <user>/<repository_name> [install_command]

# install_command:
#   cmd <shell command>
#   <install_script>

# Runs command or executes file in <repository_name> directory
# Executable files must have correct rights

# examples:
# shell cmus-bundler plugin someauthor/someplugin cmd "sh install.sh"
# shell cmus-bundler plugin someauthor/someplugin install_script.sh

theme: installs theme to ~/.cmus/themes. everything else the same as for plugin

shell cmus-bundler theme <user>/<repository_name> [install_command]

status_program: sets status program. in this case bundler works as a proxy between cmus and status program and passes environment variables from set option.

shell cmus-bundler status_program <repository_name>/<status_program_binary>

#or
# shell cmus-bundler status_program cmd <shell_command>

# set status_display_program=cmus-bundler
# required in this case
#
# examples:
# shell cmus-bundler status_program someplugin/status_program.sh
# shell cmus-bundler status_program cmd "node someplugin/script.js"
# shell cmus-bundler status_program cmd "echo $@ >> ~/status.txt"

call: calls plugin or executes shell command in ~/.cmus/plugins directory.

shell cmus-bundler call <repository_name>/<plugin_binary>

# or
# shell cmus-bundler call cmd <shell_command>

# examples:
# shell cmus-bundler call someplugin/some_app.py
# shell cmus-bundler call cmd "python someplugin/some_app.py"

Preinstall bundles

In order to be sure all plugins have been installed when you run cmus, recommended to preinstall all plugins/themes described in rc file once new plugins added:

$ cmus-bundler install

Showcases

Here are a couple of example rc files for different cases

Setting up cmus as a music server (jukebox)

# start and write logs
shell cmus-bundler start debug >> ~/logs/cmus.txt

# serve logs directory
shell cmus-bundler call cmd "cd ~/logs && python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8081"

# install remote app plugin and it's dependencies
shell cmus-bundler plugin nogizhopaboroda/cmus_app cmd "pip install --user bottle sh"

# run remote app plugin
shell cmus-bundler call cmd "cd cmus_app && python app.py --noconfig --port 8080 --app-host localhost"

$ cmus-bundler install
$ cmus

Log: http://localhost:8081/cmus.txt

Web interface: http://localhost:8080/

Setting up cmus for everyday usage (tested on OS X)

# start bundler
shell cmus-bundler start

# install colorscheme
shell cmus-bundler theme alextercete/cmus-theme-screenshot
colorscheme themes/cmus-theme-screenshot/screenshot

# install cover-art plugin (iterm2 only)
shell cmus-bundler plugin nogizhopaboroda/cmus-cover-art cmd "sh install.sh"
shell cmus-bundler status_program cmus-cover-art/observe.sh

# control cmus via gloabl media keys
shell cmus-bundler plugin nogizhopaboroda/cmus-mediakeys cmd "npm install"
shell cmus-bundler call cmus-mediakeys/mediakeys

# set cmus-bundler as status program
set status_display_program=cmus-bundler

in one terminal tab run cmus:

$ cmus

in another terminal tab run cover-art viewer:

$ $(cmus-bundler -p)/cmus-cover-art/display.sh

Debug

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To debug plugins or cmus-bundler itself, pipe bundler's output into file and open this file via tail command

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In rc file

shell cmus-bundler start debug >> <path_to_log_file>

Or print logs only from plugin command

shell cmus-bundler start debug plugin >> <path_to_log_file>

in one terminal tab run cmus:

$ cmus

in another terminal tab run tail:

$ tail -f <path_to_log_file>

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To get current state of cmus-bundler daemon:

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$ cmus-bundler get

Known plugins

Themes

https://github.com/JustinPatricWade/cmus-theme_solar-mild

https://github.com/alextercete/cmus-theme-screenshot

https://github.com/prakhar1989/Gems

Plugins

https://github.com/jplitza/cmus-fullscreen

https://github.com/hakerdefo/cmus-lyrics

https://github.com/kiike/cmus-remote

https://github.com/equinox1993/CMUS-Lyrics-Plugin

https://github.com/tqmz/playlister

https://github.com/brendanwhitfield/itunes-to-cmus

https://github.com/jwohlert/raspberry-music

https://github.com/bilee/juke-x1

https://github.com/nogizhopaboroda/cmus_app

https://github.com/nogizhopaboroda/cmus-cover-art

https://github.com/freshprince/cmuscrobbler

https://github.com/Arkq/cmusfm

https://github.com/weisslj/cmus_lastfm_autoadd

https://github.com/TiredSounds/cmus-conky

https://github.com/cmus-plugins/cmus-base-plugins

Bugs/Issues

Please report here