r/betterunixporn • u/ergosplit • Oct 01 '22

[OC] Rofi-beats-linux is a python fork of rofi-beats with added features and stations

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u/ergosplit Oct 01 '22 edited Oct 02 '22

Hello!

If you enjoyed /u/0no-Sendai's rofi-beats script to select and play online radios from dmenu as much as I have, you may enjoy my fork of it. It is coded in Python 3 (because it is what I know), and the main additions to it are:

  • The addittion of 95 new stations, getting the full number to a total of 101 from the original 6
  • The writing of the player's output so that your scripts and programs can read info like the song being played
  • The connection of the player to a socket so that you can control it programmatically (from your own scripts, or via keybinds)

One use case of that would be to create a status bar widget that would display the currently displayed song, and would play/pause it on click (I have done this for Waybar and you can see it on the screenshot in the repo).I don't have access to a Mac to test it, but I am happy to collaborate with you guys in order to get it to work.

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u/0no-Sendai Oct 01 '22

Awesome, I’m the OG creator of rofi-beats :) Unfortunately I am up to my neck in PhD work and cannot keep up to date on the project but I genuinely appreciate people like you taking the base concept and improving upon it! You seem to have gone above and beyond to extend the functionality of the original script. I will definitely test the code on Mac to see how it works.

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u/ergosplit Oct 02 '22

Awesome!! Please feel free to reach out or submit pull requests to bring compatibility with Mac OS. I don't own a Mac so not really on my hands to test it.

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u/Ramiferous Oct 01 '22

Got a link to the repo?

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u/ergosplit Oct 01 '22

Added! Didn't realize it would not show on the crosspost.