[SOLVED] music on console "moc" autostart with fluxbox

sgmart · 10-07-2012, 11:22 PM

Since moc is a music server, and mocp is the client to play music files.

I want to play my music collection with fluxbox window manager, so I've tried add this to ~/.fluxbox/startup file

Code:

#!/bin/sh
...
mocp -S &  # start moc server
mocp -p & # start music player
...
exec fluxbox

but nothing yet!

Anyone know how to perform this task?

segmentation_fault · 10-09-2012, 11:16 AM

Quote:

moc -S & # start moc server

I think this should be

Code:

mocp -S

without background (&) since -S starts the server and exits. Then

Code:

mocp -p

again without background (&) should start playing. I think just mocp without any arguments brings up the ncurses interface.

unSpawn · 10-09-2012, 04:51 PM

...also I had to make sure my playlist was populated or "-p" wouldn't play anything.

sgmart · 03-08-2015, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sgmart

Since moc is a music server, and mocp is the client to play music files.

I want to play my music collection with fluxbox window manager, so I've tried add this to ~/.fluxbox/startup file

Code:

#!/bin/sh

mocp -S &  # start moc server
mocp -p & # start music player

exec fluxbox

but nothing yet!

Anyone know how to perform this task?

[SOLVED]

It was necessary to add some delay before start the server, so I ended with something like:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

sleep 1s
mocp -S &  # start moc server
mocp -p & # start music player

exec fluxbox