How do I add Music to Music Player Minion? How do I add songs?Answer: You don't. See MusicPlayerDaemon. IntroductionWelcome to the Music Player Minion help page. This page is a work in progress. If you don't see what you are looking for yet, please feel free to post your question in the comments section at the bottom of this page in at http://groups.google.com/group/music-player-minion If you are not already familiar with Music Player Daemon, please read this page: MusicPlayerDaemon This page will always refer to the most recent version available. Keyboard ShortcutsNote: Where "Control" is mentioned, this may be a different accelerator key depending on your operating system. Application Level
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Drag and dropThe following drag and drop combinations are possible within Music player Minion:
Custom CommandsCommands sent to MPD will be displayed in the status bar where it says "Last Command". In addition to being informative, this location is also a textbox where you can enter your own commands. This can be useful for using mpd features not implemented by MPM. Commands entered here are the same as MPD's telnet protocol, see http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Protocol_Reference for details. Commands that return results from the database will be displayed in the Browse section above. Examples of how this feature could be used is to enter the command "list genre" to browse by Genre,"crossfade 3" to add a 3 second crossfade, or advanced find and list commands. Also, multiple commands can be strung together to create macros or queries using mpd's command_list feature. As a convenience, you can omit the command_list_begin/end commands. To enter multiple commands, separate each command with a semicolon ; (or use Alt + Enter to force a newline). If you omit the command_list_begin or command_list_end statements they will be automatically added in before the commands are run. The following example will play the entire library on random: clear;add "/";random 1;play which is the same as: command_list_begin clear add "/" random 1 play command_list_end When a command list will return multiple sets of database results, those results will be joined and the duplicates removed. BookmarksBookmarking a location will add it to the Home page in Minion. This can be especially useful when used with custom commands, creating a sort of "macro" feature. Bookmarks for custom commands can be renamed after the bookmark has been created by right clicking on it and choosing Rename. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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i cant add songs to the play list, can you please explain how i should do so?
timwyatt,
There are three options to add song to the playlist:
Select the songs in the browser (bottom-right) and click on the "Add to Playlist" button. Right click on a song and choose "Add to Playlist". Drag and drop the song into the Playlist on the left.
how do i add music to the player i can't seem to?
joebob,
Minion is a client for Music Player Daemon service. Music is added to the mpd library and Music player Minion then interacts with that server. To connect to the server, you'll need to enter the host and port in Settings.
Go to http://musicpd.org for more information about MPD.
its a pain in the ass.
I can't get connected to the source, can you tell me how, or can you give me an alternate source?
sublimedude777,
You should be able to checkout the source using the instructions on this page: http://code.google.com/p/musicpm/source/checkout
To make a long story short, make sure you have a svn client installed and enter the following at a command line:
svn checkout http://musicpm.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ musicpm-read-only
You can also go to the downloads section, download the .xpi, and open it with a Zip utility.
If you still have trouble, please start a thread at http://groups.google.com/group/music-player-minion and let me know what operating system you are using. You may want to sign up either way as I'll be making announcements about Music Player Minion 2 soon and how to do download and setup that version from svn for testing.
where do i go to get music
how do i download music player daemon? i didnt understand the instructions they gave me.
how do you put songs in the player
Hi,
I don't know if it's possible that minion makes mpd to play streaming radio from internet.
Can you clarify then the use of the "add url" in playlists
how can i play my music files in the pc?
Minion is pretty cool, too bad the autocentering of the current song in the playlist can't be toggled off. Also, it doesn't seem you can drag and drop songs from the browser to the playlist to a special location, rather append them to the playlist... Cheers!
Wow! Cool MPD client. has become one of my favorites.
One question: How do I get Minion to display my cover art? If possible, I want to be able to define my own .jpg that I have locally.
Thanks!
why can't i add links from youtube
Only music files are supported by mpd, not video.
I love it, thanks.
Is there a way to start this using a URL so I can create a bookmark/icon to start up Minion?
pzfeo,
The url is: chrome://minion/content/minion.xul
You should see this url in the address bar when you are viewing the page within firefox. If you want to start it from a desktop icon or the command line, you need to use the -chrome switch:
firefox -chrome chrome://minion/content/minion.xul
HOW THE FUCK DO I PLAY FUCKING SONGS?
smitchell:
See http://code.google.com/p/musicpm/wiki/MusicPlayerDaemon
Very nice, using this to control MPD on a NMT. Thanks for all your efforts!
On top of the page it says loading .pls playlists is supported, and indeed, it is. However, I'd also like to drop .pls files in MPD's playlist folder. The reason is that I'd like to have a radio streams playlist on the server, and have each one be called something sensible. Currently the URL shows up, and they usually aren't very descriptive. Does MPM support this? Will it? Does MPD even support it?
Hello,
VERY happy with Minion as an easy secondary client for MPD. However, there is one thing that is really pissing me off... When I go to browse artists it doesn't sort it. I get Michael Jackson first, then Fat Boy Slim, etc (very random - though always the same "random" order each time i visit the artists list). I know i can click on "Title" to sort it, but to have to do that every time is a joke. How can I make it default to be sorted alphabetically? I do not have this issue in any other MPD client i've used...
how do i get music on the minion, i mean i know it says enter url but where can i find music urls?? its getting kind of annoying
Another question -- Where is MPM getting the album art from? Is it grabbing it from Amazon/Last.fm or somewhere similar each time something plays or does it use the same database that ario is using? gmpc has to load entirely separate from ario is why i'm asking... I hate to be constantly downloading tons of album covers :(
obrith,
The sort will be whatever mpd returns by default, usually a case sensitive sort. You can change this by going into Settings and checking off the "Always loa with linguistic sort" option.
The album art url is being looked up from musicbrainz.com and downloaded from amazon. The lookup is cached for the session and the image is cached automatically by Firefox. You can expect to download each image only once (unless you clear your temporary internet files). The musicbrainz lookup happens once per session.
TODJAYDOG511:
Scroll up to the very top of the page and read the first topic:
How do I add Music to Music Player Minion? How do I add songs?
cseickel,
Downloaded 1.99 (MPM 2) and used the setting you described. Works fine/how I wanted. I like the newer interface quite a bit for the most part, though it seems redundant to some degree (middle and right panels). And took me a second to find how to open MPM (I naturally closed the window it popped up on firefox launch, but found how to launch it in a tab in the settings right away once i found the MPM buttons in the lower right).
Thanks, Great web client for my windows box!
obrith
how to tern off autorun minion window? when FF is opening?
obrith,
It is redundant to have all three panels. The idea is that you can choose the layout that suits you and close the one(s) you don't want by resizing them.
sundelor,
I just uploaded a new package that fixes the auto-open window. That was actually a mistake in packaging.
the music daemon in not user-friendly. which in turn makes the music minion useless to me. a waste of time, sadly. i'll have to uninstall both.
can't install new version, FF said that cant find script to install.
P.S. sorry for my english :)
already find the problem, You put folder release into .xpi, instead of putting just content of this folder :)
How do i put the music on?
Minor bug i've seen in 1.99 -- The track end time on the playbar gets "stuck" on previous tracks end time occasionally.
Eranolas - read very top of the page. Music Player Minion does not play songs, per se. It simply (remotely) controls MPD that is running on a linux/unix server that has access to your music. IE you have your media center connected to your stereo that has MPD running, and you sit on your couch and control the music that is playing with your laptop. Or from your neighbors house. Or from the other side of the world.
Also, I miss drag-drop in 1.99 :(
Great plugin! Love it! Cheers, Joshua
I LIIKE! this plugin. With the Thinclient from e-bay for 15€, MPD, an NFS share and this plugin it is just perfect for my music at home. Thanks! I installed the Version 2 yesterday and found some cool new features(songtext, songinfo, google it,...). Peter
My httpd server is not running on pot 80. How can I connect?
I tried host_address:xxxx, but minion thinks xxxx is the mpd port, and replaces 6600 for xxxx. Therefore, I cannot connect outside my local network, which is behind a NAT. Thanks.
How to play music on client?, when i try to play a track, mpd starts to play it on server.
Drag and drop does not seem to be working, do I have to do anything special to get it to work?
I would love to be able to drag from library or saved playlitst into other saved (not-current) playlists, while playing something else... have never seen an mpd client before that allows for this.
Also, are there other themes available anywhere?
One thing I'd like to know is how to pass an argument to an mpd command when creating a menu item. The edit menu item option makes it seem like, whatever is selected when the custom command is invoked would be the argument which isn't the case and I can't find a way to send an argument, at all. One use case example is Create/Delete/Edit Playlists. You can create a playlist from the UI but you can't delete it from the UI, so I created a "Delete Playlist" command for the menu but sadly, there's no way to send what is selected as the argument (in this case, the mpd command is 'rm'). So I have to use a background console to mpd to do this.
Hi!
Great player. Mnay thanks.
1) Can MPM display cover art from .flac files? I thought it did it once, but then after, i was never able to see the cover art again.
2) How can I save playlists? It seems that when i turn my music server player off, the playlists disappear. Is it because i can't save them on the server. Can I save them somewhere else?
Many thanks again.
jt
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