Shell-based jukebox with mpv and json ipc handling single commands like q for quit, p for pause. Requires socat.

jukebox.sh

#!/bin/sh
rm /tmp/fifo
mkfifo /tmp/fifo
mdir='/mnt/media/music/ /home/kevin/Desktop/some_sound/'
filter='(\.jpg|\.png|\.bmp|\.m3u|\.ini)'

function maybe_filter() {
while read -r -d $'\0' input; do
  if [[ $input == *tons_of_video_game_music* ]]; then
    if [ $RANDOM -lt 16384 ]; then
      echo $input
    fi
  else
    echo $input
  fi
done
}

while true; do
  find -L $mdir -type f -print0 | sort -R --random-source=/dev/urandom -z | maybe_filter | egrep -v -i $filter | shuf -n 1 --random-source=/dev/urandom | sed -e "s/'/'\\\''/g" | awk '{print "'\''"$0"'\''"}' | xargs mpv --audio-display=no -quiet -input-ipc-server=/tmp/fifo; done &
p=`jobs -p`
trap ctrl_c INT
function ctrl_c() {
  kill $p
  reset
  exit 0
}
sendstart='{ "command": ['
sendend=' ] }'
paused='no'
while true; do
  read -sn1 key;
  test "$key" == "q" && (echo "$sendstart \"quit\" $sendend" | socat - /tmp/fifo && continue);
  if [[ "$key" == "p" ]]; then
    if [[ "$paused" = 'no' ]]; then
      paused='yes';
    else
      paused='no';
    fi
    echo "$sendstart \"set\",\"pause\",\"$paused\" $sendend" | socat - /tmp/fifo && continue;
  fi
done

Looks like it still chokes on some files with single-quotes in their name. Eh, I'll fix it later.

Problem solved. Also yay for a filter.

Posted a change I made a while back that allows for more specific filtering that may be all-or-nothing or random or whatever you like. (I have literally thousands of video game music files that tend to dominate the jukebox selection unless I make them less likely.)

For a long time this still 'worked' with mpv replacing mplayer, then mpv killed the feature for sending commands and require using json ipc.. Updated it but only supports q and p right now, seek support maybe in the future.