Jable

A minimalist YouTube audio player for the console.

Motivation

As a tabbro^tm, my browser often overloads my RAM and CPU with things I don't really need. YouTube music tabs are one of the main perpetrators. And as a developer, I spend most of my time inside a terminal. You can see where this is going... Listening to YouTube music from your terminal, provided by Jable.

Bonus points - it will also work for podcasts, talks, just about anything you don't have to actually look at.

Installation

If you are on 64-bit Linux, you can download the binary:

Otherwise, you will have to build Jable yourself, instructions down below.

Usage

Jable is technically a terminal inside your terminal. Once you start Jable you will be presented with jable: cli. Right now Jable has only basic functions:

play [QUERY] searches YouTube for your [QUERY], fetches the first result and plays it. If Jable is already playing something, play command will add the song to the queue. You can queue up to 10 songs.
pause will pause the current playback.
resume will continue the playback where it was previously paused.
skip will skip the current song and start playing the next song in the queue.
help presents you with a nice help dialog, listing all Jable features.
exit gracefully quit Jable, but we all know Ctrl+C is more convinient.

Build Jable from source

Grab the source:

git clone https://github.com/gophergala2016/jable cd jable

First you need to install some dependencies:

apt-get install libao-dev libmpg123-dev go get bitbucket.org/weberc2/media/ao go get bitbucket.org/weberc2/media/mpg123

Then just build like any Go program:

go build

If something goes wrong, try building with cgo enabled, because imported mpg123 and ao packages are linking before mentioned libmpg123 and libao.

CGO_ENABLED=1 go build

If application is working, but there is no audio output, please make sure your libao coniguration points to correct audio driver in /etc/libao.conf.

Gopher Gala

This is a submission for 2016 Gopher Gala by kortemy.