Command line music streaming

September 15, 2014 1:20 AM

Cmd.fm is no frills, command line music streaming. For the geek music lover in all of us.

Exploring is quite simple--just type "help" or "genres" to get started.

posted by zardoz (24 comments total)

I tried to go to the website in FF, but it wouldn't load without disabling NoScript. It just loaded a list of the (many) blocked scripts.

So, out of curiosity, I tried to visit it in w3m. No luck. Just a blank page.

Ironically, the no frills command line music streamer is inaccessible from no frills command line web browsers.
posted by jingzuo at 1:48 AM on September 15, 2014 [2 favorites]

It uses scripts. Film at 10.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 1:51 AM on September 15, 2014 [4 favorites]

I'm disappointed there isn't some way to actually SSH to this and use it that way.

also holy short url, that must have cost some bux
posted by emptythought at 1:58 AM on September 15, 2014 [3 favorites]

The only scripts required for the site to function are cmd.fm and soundcloud.com, which seem pretty innocuous.

Excellent and diverse selection - I'm listening right now.
Thanks for sharing, zardoz.
posted by Pudhoho at 1:59 AM on September 15, 2014 [1 favorite]

also hey timecop isn't real 80s music :|
posted by emptythought at 2:01 AM on September 15, 2014

It should be noted that this isn't a shell tool that streams music, but a fancy-shmancy simulation of a CLI running in Javascript. That's why scripts have to be unblocked in your browser for it to work.
posted by JHarris at 2:43 AM on September 15, 2014 [10 favorites]

On the plus side, it has flappy bird and mario.
posted by MartinWisse at 3:57 AM on September 15, 2014 [1 favorite]

It should be noted that this isn't a shell tool that streams music, but a fancy-shmancy simulation of a CLI running in Javascript.

Frown-mode activated.
posted by nerdler at 4:19 AM on September 15, 2014 [7 favorites]

Command line music players:

https://github.com/np1/mps-youtube

http://mylinuxbook.com/3-popular-command-line-music-players-for-linux/
posted by signal at 4:52 AM on September 15, 2014 [7 favorites]

> play Chiptu<tab>     <tab><tab><tab><tab>
*sigh*
> play Chiptunes<enter>

posted by Vendar at 5:58 AM on September 15, 2014 [12 favorites]

That's an interesting bug, Vendar: tab-completion seems to only work if you type the genre name without an initial capital letter.
posted by James Scott-Brown at 6:20 AM on September 15, 2014 [4 favorites]

Started looking for the .deb package for this, the went went back and RTFA and was like ..."oh". It's cute though.
Used to use mpg123 and I was preparing for a nostalgia trip.
posted by The Legit Republic of Blanketsburg at 6:30 AM on September 15, 2014 [1 favorite]

JHarris: It should be noted that this isn't a shell tool that streams music, but a fancy-shmancy simulation of a CLI running in Javascript.

Flagged for "You're breaking my heart with this bait and switch, you bastards!"

Not you, JHarris, you're a good egg.
posted by wenestvedt at 6:40 AM on September 15, 2014 [5 favorites]

It is curious why more web applications are not written as CLI (even if simulated). It allows for rapid prototyping. It should be possible to write an interactive CLI program in any language and have it work as-is in a web browser through some common gateway API similar to cgi-bin.
posted by stbalbach at 8:07 AM on September 15, 2014

James Scott-Brown: That's an interesting bug, Vendar: tab-completion seems to only work if you type the genre name without an initial capital letter.

Ah, nice find. Odd that genres as listed capitalized but tab-complete lowercased.

It was nice to find that <Ctrl-a> and <Ctrl-k> behaved as I'd expect. No vi editing mode, but I suppose that's probably asking a bit much.
posted by Vendar at 8:13 AM on September 15, 2014

GallonOfAlan: It uses scripts. Film at 10.

I heard that Soundcloud and Pandora use html.

The More You Know!
posted by IAmBroom at 8:26 AM on September 15, 2014

Command line jockeys who also allow execution of untrusted code in their browser couldn't possibly be a very large segment of the population
posted by mike_bling at 8:32 AM on September 15, 2014

Frown-mode activated.

/usr/bin/comment --frown --snark www.metafllter.com/142746/Command-line-music-streaming "This is about as `command line` as George W. Bush is Texan."
posted by Celsius1414 at 8:34 AM on September 15, 2014 [3 favorites]

> play thrash
Thinking, please wait..
Thinking, please wait..

FUCK THAT! YOU SHOULD NEVER THINK TWICE ABOUT THRASHIN'
posted by SharkParty at 8:35 AM on September 15, 2014 [6 favorites]

> play thrash
Thinking, please wait..
Thinking, please wait..

I thought this comment was going to be a joke.
posted by James Scott-Brown at 9:01 AM on September 15, 2014 [1 favorite]

There is a REAL command line Pandora client called Pianobar which is surprisingly like this, only actual C code running on an actual command line. As a plus it is trivially easy to modify it to save the songs.
posted by miyabo at 9:16 AM on September 15, 2014 [2 favorites]

Based on how sad I am about Rdio's appalling redesign, this is just what I needed to cheer me up today.
posted by dame at 10:55 AM on September 15, 2014

Command line jockeys who also allow execution of untrusted code in their browser couldn't possibly be a very large segment of the population


You mean like any website that uses javascript? Like this one? Like this text box I'm typing in right now?
posted by signal at 10:56 AM on September 15, 2014 [2 favorites]

this isn't a shell tool that streams music

But, with a bit of lowly protocol crafting and a USB<>RS232 interface to a VIC-20 or a ZX80, it could be even more less than that.
posted by CynicalKnight at 1:24 PM on September 15, 2014