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🤮 Best Song That You'll Hear Today 🌮

dropping the needle on some fat album track
my music room office in early 2010's

With the Nova 8Bs

keep on truckin' image
Hey, music lover. Listen, (heh) I heard this song (today) and wanted to share because it's the best thing ever according to me. Maybe you will love it, too. My criteri(a/um) are/is (WTF) simple: it's gotta have that thing. That thing could be anything, especially, at the moment. It's cool, though, because this song is awesome. Also, this page is chock full of grooves. So much groove. We've got grooves sliding all over the place around here.

Louder


~ The best song you'll hear today ~

Pink Floyd - Fearless



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And always this: I wish  and also, you're fuk'n right

Past Best Songs, check 'em out




Also, just stop thinking and groove with Galactic one time


some music players for Linux include

I employ 3 easy ways to listen to music on my desktop: mpv, audacious, mpg123, and pianobar . mpv finds the least work because it will pop-up album covers, which, while pretty, are distracting and will not stay on the virtual desktop I move mpv over to as they pop up in my face 2 desktops over all of the time. Still, it's a handy alias:
alias tunes='mpv --shuffle --playlist=tunage20jan25.m3u &'
Audacious is map'd to a keybind in rc.xml, of course, see below. So handy and it gets a lot of use - I hit w-a and it's playing. Awesome. I have a URL playlist already loaded and audacious is set to resume playing at start. Or, you can open a playlist: right-click on the interface and add a URL: https://wicn-ice.streamguys1.com/live-mp3. In the settings you can click to auto play playlist when you open, see an image below, after you groove with Gary Clark Jr. one time. Awesome.

Gary Clark Jr. Live

audacious interface
in ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml

<keyboard>
...
<keybind key="W-a">
<action name="Execute">
<startupnotify>
<enabled>true</enabled>
<name>wicn</name>
</startupnotify>
<command>audacious</command>
</action>
</keybind>
...
</keyboard>
audacious settings
mpg123 used to do all the heavy lifting around here when I used it to play that same URL playlist that audacious plays now. 6 in one, half-dozen in the other. I coulda map'd mpg123 to the same keybind, but, I never did and only kept using it in an alias from the terminal: alias wicn='mpg123 https://wicn-ice.streamguys1.com/live-mp3'
It worked great and I might dump audacious again and map it.

Handy Pianobar

So I ran with pithos for years. Loved it, worked great, nice to look at, got out of the way. Once I started messing with my setup last year I started to have problems with pithos and gnome-keyring; specificaly with gnome-keyring. Pfft. I found Pianobar and it's a finer soultion for me, handily map'd to w-p and using a gpg key to keep my account password safe because who wants plain text files with passwords right there staring you in the face?
Pianobar can get your account password from an encrypted file instead which is very cool. Make a text file, put your pandora account password in it, save the file and then encrypt the file. In the pianobar config file add the path to the file: password_command = gpg --decrypt ~/password.gpg.
Still, it isn't exactly a fluid and rapid opening as there has to be a mechanism for said key and gnome-keyring is the goto. Nah. I set keepassxc up for the duty and to open when I log in so it's ready and then the process is handy and quick. I hit W-p and up pops the password dialog for the key...and I'm grooving.
UPDATE: After cleaning up my profile I don't use keepassxc for gpg stuff anymore and am back to gnome-keyring, which is fine now. I don't have to wait to open keepassxc which was an issue when I started to use it for everything gpg. Now I hit w-p and the key unlock dialog is instant and pianobar is fired-up and I'm grooving to some Maceo Parker radio
There are a handy couple scripts for controlling Pianobar that may interest you. Have a look at a few keybinds that I am using in ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml

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 <keybind key="W-a-Home">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>~/.config/pianobar/control-pianobar.sh love</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="W-a-Left">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>~/.config/pianobar/control-pianobar.sh history</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="W-a-Right">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>~/.config/pianobar/control-pianobar.sh next</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
      <keybind key="W-a-Up">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>~/.config/pianobar/control-pianobar.sh switchstation</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
      <keybind key="W-a-Down">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>~/.config/pianobar/control-pianobar.sh p</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="W-a-Delete">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>~/.config/pianobar/control-pianobar.sh quit</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
what, me worry?