beets-mpd-utils

Some beets plugins to interface with Music Player Daemon.

• MPD Tracker: Track song plays/skips on MPD.
• MPD DJ: Auto-add songs/albums to your MPD queue.

Installation

Install the plugin.

pip install beets-mpd-utils

Enable the plugin by adding it the plugins option in your beets config.

plugins: mpd_tracker, mpd_dj

Provided Plugins

MPD Tracker

The mpd_tracker plugin tracks song plays and skips on MPD and records them in the following flexible attributes:

• Song
  • play_count: The number of times the song has been played.
  • last_played: When the play_count was last updated.
  • skip_count: The number of times the song has beed skipped.
• Album
  • last_played: Only written once every song in the album has been played. Defined as the oldest last_played value for the songs in the album.

Usage

Once enabled, start the tracker by typing:

beet tracker

Configuration

To configure, make a mpd_tracker section in your beets config file. Songs will be considered played/skipped if either of the time/percentage thresholds are met.

The available options are:

• play_time: The amount of seconds played after which the song will be considered "played". Default: 240.
• play_percent: The percentage of the song that needs to be played before being considered "played". Expects a value between 0 and 1, default: 0.5.
• skip_time: The amount of seconds played before which the song will be considered "skipped". Default: 20.
• skip_percent: The percentage of the song that needs to be played before which the song will be considered "skipped". Expects a value between 0 and 1, default: 0.0.

MPD DJ

The mpd_dj plugin randomly adds items to the MPD queue. Note that activating this plugin will turn off random mode in MPD, as it needs to know what songs are upcoming in the queue.

Usage

Once enabled, start the tracker by typing:

beet dj

By default, the plugin will work to maintain 20 upcoming songs, selected randomly from the library. These defaults can be changed using command-line options.

• --number=ITEMS, -n ITEMS: The plugin will maintain the specified number of items in the upcoming queue.
• --album, -a: The plugin will queue albums instead of songs.

In addition, you can enter a query to specify what will be added to the queue.

# maintain 5 albums in the queue, pulling randomly from albums released in 2022
beet dj -n 5 --album year:2022