Re: cmus-remote - playing from a playlist

[Peter G <pet...@gm...>]

I should have mentioned that in order for things to work i have to manually
(i.e. through the cmus interface) switch to the playlist view, play a song,
and only then adding and playing new playlists/directories through
cmus-remote, as outlined below, will work.


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Peter G <pet...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> sometimes i want to use cmus with a mouse, and do this through my window
> manager and cmus-remote. I find one problem however, that can't get around.
>
> Suppose I am in view 3 (playlist) and am playing a song. If now I want to
> create a new playlist from some music directory, and then play it right
> away, from the command line i do:
>
> cmus-remote -c /my/path/to/music/dir/
> sleep 0.7 #I have to do this if the directory has lots of files
> cmus-remote -n
>
> this works fine, and the first song in my the directory
> /my/path/to/music/dir/ will play.
>
> BUT if I am in the library view playing a song (or even not, but still in
> view 1), then doing
>
> cmus-remote -c /my/path/to/music/dir/
> cmus-remote -n
>
> will add the directory contents to a playlist, but will play the next song
> from the library (view 1) and NOT from the playlist.
>
> I have tried various things like
> cmus-remote -C "view 3"
> or
> cmus-remote -P -n
> etc..
> to tell cmus i want to play the next song from the newly created playlist,
> but can't get things to work.
>
> any ideas?
> I am using the standard version that comes with ubuntu 12.04:
> cmus v2.4.3
> Copyright 2004-2006 Timo Hirvonen
> Copyright 2008-2011 Various Authors
>
> THANKS to all those who contributed to this great software!
>
>