Ektoplayer is a commandline client for ektoplazm.com, a website where you can listen and download freely licensed psytrance, techno and downtempo music.
It allows you to
- Search for tracks by tags (artist, album, style, ...)
- Play tracks located at ektoplazm.com
- Display information about albums
- Download whole albums as mp3
- Mouse support
- Vi-like keybindings (
hjkl
,^d
,^u
,/
,?
,n
,N
, ...) - Up to 256 colors are supported
- Local sound file cache
- Song prefetching
- Ruby (1.9)
- Mpg123 (1.14)
- Sqlite3
- One of the following ncurses gems: curses, ffi-ncurses, ncurses, ncuresw
- For extracting album archives either
unzip
,7z
or the GemRubyZip
is needed
-
Using yaourt:
yaourt -S ektoplayer
-
Using pacman:
pacman -S ruby mpg123 sqlite3 ncurses --needed
gem install ektoplayer
`apt-get install ruby ruby-ncurses ruby-nokogiri ruby-sqlite3 mpg123 sqlite3 libncurses5`
`gem install ektoplayer`
Ektplayer keeps it's default configuration file under ~/.config/ektoplayer/ektoplayer.rc
.
Available configuration commands:
set <option> <value>
bind <window> <key> <command>
undbind <window> <key>
unbind_all
color <name> <fg> [<bg> [<attribute> ...]]
color_mono <name> <fg> [<bg> [<attribute> ...]]
color_256 <name> <fg> [<bg> [<attribute> ...]]
See ektoplayer.rc for a configuration file with the default values.
- Ektoplayer was inspired by Soundcloud2000 and ncmpcpp