Poppy Music Player

poppy is a simple music player that is controlled by process signals.

Features

Poppy plays sound via PulseAudio, and is controlled via D-Bus MPRIS interface.

Up to 8 channels are supported. All audio is resampled to 48khz.

The initial playlist is determined by command line arguments. Links in an Ogg chain will be considered distinct tracks.

Filetypes supported

• FLAC (Native, Ogg)
• Opus (Ogg)
• Vorbis (Ogg)

Usage

Running

poppy track1.flac track2.opus track3.ogg ...

Controlling

playerctl

playerctl -p poppy play-pause
playerctl -p poppy next
playerctl -p poppy previous
...

dbus-send

dbus-send --session --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.poppy --print-reply /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause
dbus-send --session --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.poppy --print-reply /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next
dbus-send --session --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.poppy --print-reply /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous

Build

Before anything:

meson setup build
cd build

Requirements

See poppy/meson.build and poppyctl/meson.build

Compiling

ninja

See meson configure -h for configuration options (i.e. install location, optimization, etc.).

Executables will be in build/poppy and build/poppyctl.

Installing

ninja install

Uninstalling

ninja uninstall

License

Use of this work is governed by the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.

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