CYP: Control Your Player

CYP is a web-based frontend for MPD, the Music Player Daemon. You can use it to control the playback without having to install native application(s). It works in modern web browsers, both desktop and mobile.

Screenshots

Features

Control the playback, queue, volume
Save and load playlists
Browse the library by artists/albums/directories
Display album art via native MPD calls (no need to access the library; requires MPD >= 0.21)
Youtube-dl integration
Dark/Light themes

Installation

Make sure you have a working MPD setup first and Node version >= 10

git clone https://github.com/ondras/cyp.git && cd cyp
npm i
node .

Point your browser to http://localhost:8080 to open the interface. Specify a custom MPD address via a server querystring argument (?server=localhost:6655).

Instalation - Docker

Alternatively, you can use Docker to run CYP.

git clone https://github.com/ondras/cyp.git && cd cyp
docker build -t cyp .
docker run --network=host cyp

Youtube-dl integration

You will need a working youtube-dl installation. Audio files are downloaded into the _youtube directory, so make sure it is available to your MPD library (use a symlink).

If you use Docker, you need to mount the _youtube directory into the image:

docker run --network=host -v "$(pwd)"/_youtube:/cyp/_youtube cyp

Changing the port

...is done via the PORT environment variable. If you use Docker, the -e switch does the trick:

docker run --network=host -e PORT=12345 cyp

Technology

Connected to MPD via WebSockets (using the ws2mpd bridge)
Token-based access to the WebSocket endpoint (better than an Origin check)
Modern ES6+ (modules, async/await)
Responsive layout via Flexbox
CSS Custom Properties
SVG icons (Material Design)
Can spawn Youtube-dl to download audio files
Album art retrieved directly from MPD (and cached via localStorage)

TODO

Bundling
Range styling
Browser testing

tguillem/cyp