Simple frontend

Question

Simple frontend

GoldenChaos opened this issue 6 years ago · 6 comments

A simple front-end with a drag-and-drop interface to play an audio file infinitely. Doesn’t have to be pretty, just more convenient than the terminal! Any plans for something like this?

Answer 1 · 2018-10-23T04:38:17.000Z

I've been thinking about building a website, actually, but I have to figure out some client-side playback stuff before I can tackle that. Alternately, I could (probably) build a GUI that's portable across Linux/Windows/Mac, but that would take some work.

Finally, (in the meantime), you can add a right context menu item for MP3s (or whatever extension) that just calls this script. Then, you can just right click on your file and launch this.

Answer 2 · 2018-10-23T13:06:13.000Z

I think a portable GUI would be much more ideal than a website, especially since this is for playing local files (as opposed to tracks from Spotify). If you need/want some design help I’d be more than happy to donate a few hours of my time this weekend and mock something up in sketch :)

Hadn’t thought about adding it to the context menu, that’s a great idea haha. Definitely going to do that for now!

Answer 3 · 2019-03-10T01:31:27.000Z

I'm thinking about this again. I discovered Platypus (https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus), but I've been unsuccessful getting it working properly. If you could provide simple instructions, I'd love to be able to just drag a file onto a window and have it work.

Here are my Platypus app settings:

Buuuut I get this error when running inside my Platypus app:

Any thoughts on getting it working inside Platypus?

Answer 4 · 2019-03-10T01:53:42.000Z

It looks to me like maybe the environment you selected doesn't support the curses library. I see that "text window" is an interface option. Maybe there's an option for Curses (or Termcap) support in one of the options?

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-dave

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Answer 5 · 2019-03-10T11:43:15.000Z

Here are the options it’s got:

You can also set arguments:

I don’t think there’s an explicit option for Curses or Termcap anywhere, it would have to be manually set. I don’t know anything about those two things though to configure it properly.

Answer 6 · 2019-08-04T21:53:00.000Z

I've created a web ui for this app. Please see the "Web UI" directory for more. It also comes with some enhancements from the original version. Closing this for now.