mps Poor man's Spotify

res401 · 2016-01-01 00:41:15

Hello all,

so I was trying to get mps Poor man's Spotify running, I use this on my arch laptop and it works fine. I installed on my bunsen #! desktop and when I search for songs and choose what I want to play, mps just scrolls through the songs but doesn't play any of them. I also use cmus which works fine so I'm not sure why the songs won't play in mps.

um recent install and up to date of Bunsen #!, pulse audio, shell=bash4.3, terminal=guake,
Reason for recent install is my hard drive had died and I just got a new one, did NOT want to install ubuntu again(I have distro hopped for the last 10 years but always debian based) and remembered using #! years ago, and like debian/apt and I thought #! was debian sid, with openbox/fluxbox, I like simple to the point lightweight window managers.... ok this is turning into something way off topic.

so yea scrolls through songs quickly without playing them. Let me know if there us any other info that will aid in a fix.

Thanks
Rich

mps = https://github.com/np1/mps

Last edited by res401 (2016-01-01 00:42:30)

damo · 2016-01-01 00:47:14

Do you get any useful messages if when you start the app in the terminal?

How did you install mps? AFAICS the only similar Debian package is `mps-youtube`.

NB Crunchbang was always Debian Stable (as is BL), not sid.

EDIT: just seen your edit. I assume you have `mplayer` installed?

Last edited by damo (2016-01-01 00:48:31)

res401 · 2016-01-01 17:55:11

yes i have mplayer installed, i installed mps with "pip install mps". no errors or messages, everything seems to work fine except instead of playing songs, it quickly scrolls through them as if its going to play but can't.

ohnonot · 2016-01-02 04:15:29

^ type "set" and what does it return?

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i installed this today and it was really helpful for making my eighties mix (god, i haven't done something like that for ages. enjoyed it).

i am just very slightly put off by the fact that in the last line of the readme it says:
"this software ... downloads content from pleer.com"
imho, it should say that right at the top.
i mean, of course it has to get the music from somewhere, but it's very important to know that (and also that that apparently isn't configurable).
apart from that, a very neat cli program.

Last edited by ohnonot (2021-07-04 08:03:34)

jasonwert · 2016-01-02 04:16:22

I've been using MPS for over a year on Crunchbang (Testing). I'm pretty sure I compiled from github. I use mplayer and have never had the issue you described. You might try that route.

-jason

brontosaurusrex · 2016-01-02 10:40:39

Working just fine on wheezy as well (with 'pip install --user pyopenssl ndg-httpsclient pyasn1' before).

tknomanzr · 2016-01-02 16:42:47

I am curious if it a gstreamer plugin problem. I think at the very least you should check to see if gstreamer1.0-plugins-base and gstreamer1.0-plugins-good are installed on your system. If I am remembering correctly, the gstreamer plugins should come installed in BL by default come the next iso release.

AL13N · 2016-01-23 15:38:43

ohnonot wrote:

i am just very slightly put off by the fact that in the last line of the readme it says:
"this software ... downloads content from pleer.com"
...
apart from that, a very neat cli program.

There's also mps-youtube.

Note: My BunsenLabs system has python3 and python-pip installed but "pip3" and "python3 -m pip" wasn't working.

The solution was to download get-pip.py and run it with python3:

cd /location/of/file/
sudo python3 get-pip.py

Source: home-assistant.io/getting-started/troubleshooting

Last edited by AL13N (2016-02-09 12:44:39)

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mps Poor man's Spotify

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