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IMMS Once More

I once again have a working IMMS system. (Finally!) I’m using MPD for the player, my own imms.rb to talk to IMMS, and a history/queue wrapper client to turn MPD’s playlist into—you guessed it—a history (before current song) and queue (after current song).

This has the downside that your playlist isn’t a comprehensive playlist. So if you use a client where you would select a song you wanted to hear from a playlist you might not find it. Not to mention that would also mess up the IMMS behaviour.

My solution is mpremote.rb (which also needs livesearch.rb) to quickly find songs from the library and enqueue (enter) or jump-to (END) any song or group of songs I feel like listening to.

Eventually I’ll make a qt or gtk version of mpremote to be more like xmmsfind_remote (if you still use xmms I highly recommend it). Hans and I are also currently conspiring to make an even better MPD that will queue and possibly talk to imms itself.