Show HN: Muse, a CLI background music player (github.com)

... and there's no support for playlists. So, there's actually no control over what it plays.

> Is the idea that you're not choosing specific song and it'll instead cycle through predesignated ones?

At random. That's why it's background.

> Does anyone know if there's more docs on the intention behind this?

I would assume what it's just what is on the box - a player for when you want some background noise.

Though it gave me an idea and I added a batch file to my global scripts:

    start C:\Shares\personal\justsomehnguy\progs\Winamp563\winamp.exe "%CD%"

  # The order in which the audio files are played
  # Can be either "Random" or "Alphabetical".
  playback_order = "Random"

- It plays instantly. You don't need to click through a GUI and see names, labels etc. Just press a play shortcut.

- There's an element of surprise, and you can hear your whole collection. Sure, you can do that with a GUI, but it's a few extra clicks.

You will always get used to music. I wrote a player that will play a piece of music less frequently if I skip it faster, so what I skip less I will hear again sooner. Also, I add extra meta keys to the shortcut if I'm far too used to something and don't want to hear it in a while.

Also, I flag music that has lyrics / speaking / vocal sounds so I can skip it when I'm trying to focus.

You can save a ton of battery using things like this.

I created a similar app using mac's afplay 11 (yikes) years ago https://github.com/andion/gramola

I don't use it anymore but at the time it made my battery last longer, you can see a battery consumption comparison on the repo.

Hey! OP here. I primarily work in the terminal, so Muse is a more convenient way for me to play music. Personally, I don't really care what track should play, so as you said it just cycles through predesignated ones. The reason why I call it a "background" music player is that I can just run Muse, and it will play music without any manual intervention or thought.

Hey! Yeah, using cargo install --git should work. You should just make sure that ~/.cargo/bin is in your PATH.