Comments on: moc, screen and figlet: A sum greater than its parts

By: Improving the mocp status screensaver « Motho ke motho ka botho

Improving the mocp status screensaver « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:47:58 +0000

[...] me for rehashing something I mentioned so recently, but I refined and made a few improvements to the “now playing” script for mocp, figlet and screen from a mere 10 days ago. (Additionally this might not be terrifically interesting at all, but only [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 05:34:16 +0000

No, I hadn’t seen that one. I think I shall take a look though. …

By: fuxter

fuxter — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:55:22 +0000

hey, doc, did you see this monster
http://www.cubic.org/player/index.html

haven’t tried it… and i guess i won’t..

By: bryan

bryan — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:19:30 +0000

You can do much the same thing with mpd and mpc with a small modification of the above command:

while true ; do clear ; mpc | awk ‘/-/ {print $0} | figlet -t -c ; sleep 15s ; done

By: Abe Akesson

Abe Akesson — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:34:29 +0000

Very nice. I used to run Moc and I never realized it could do that.