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pianobar \- console pandora.com music player
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is a lightweight console music player for the personalized online radio
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.I $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pianobar/config
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.I ~/.config/pianobar/config
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Per-user configuration file. See
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Global/per-user audio output configuration. See libao documentation at
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http://xiph.org/ao/doc/config.html
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The configuration file consists of simple
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lines. Each terminated with a newline (\\n) character. Keys and values are both
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case sensitive. act_*-keys control
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Love currently played song.
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Ban current track. It will not be played again and can only removed using the
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pandora.com web interface.
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.B act_stationaddmusic = a
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Add more music to current station. You will be asked for a search string. Just
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follow the instructions. If you're clueless try '?' (without quotes).
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Bookmark current song or artist.
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.B act_stationcreate = c
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Create new station. You have to enter a search string and select the song or
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artist of your choice.
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.B act_stationdelete = d
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Delete current station.
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.B act_songexplain = e
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Explain why this song is played.
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.B act_stationaddbygenre = g
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Add genre station provided by pandora.
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Print information about currently played song/station.
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Add shared station by id. id is a very long integer without "sh" at the
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Move current song to another station
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.B act_stationrename = r
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Rename currently played station.
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.B act_stationchange = s
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Select another station.
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Ban song for one month.
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Show next songs in playlist.
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.B act_stationselectquickmix = x
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Select quickmix stations.
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.B audio_format = {aacplus,mp3,mp3-hifi}
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Select audio format. aacplus is default if both libraries (faad, mad) are
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available. mp3-hifi is available for Pandora One customers only.
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.B autostart_station = stationid
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Play this station when starting up. You can get the
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or the key you defined in
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.B control_proxy = http://host:port/
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Non-american users need a proxy to use pandora.com. Only the xmlrpc interface
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will use this proxy. The music is streamed directly.
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.B event_command = path
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File that is executed when event occurs. See section
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Keep a history of the last n songs (5, by default). You can rate these songs.
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.B password = plaintext_password
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Your pandora.com password. Plain-text.
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.B proxy = http://host:port/
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Use a http proxy. Note that this setting overrides the http_proxy environment
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.B sort = {name_az, name_za, quickmix_01_name_az, quickmix_01_name_za, quickmix_10_name_az, quickmix_10_name_za}
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Sort station list by name or type (is quickmix) and name. name_az for example
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sorts by name from a to z, quickmix_01_name_za by type (quickmix at the
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bottom) and name from z to a.
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.B user = your@user.name
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Your pandora.com username.
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can be controlled through a fifo. You have to create it yourself by executing
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mkfifo ~/.config/pianobar/ctl
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Adjust the path if you set up a $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. Afterwards you can write
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commands directly into the fifo. Example (next song):
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echo -n 'n' > ~/.config/pianobar/ctl
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is the keybinding for "next song". If you customized your keybindings you have to use these characters to control
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.I This behaviour may change in the future!
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nc -l -p 12345 -s localhost localhost > ~/.config/pianobar/ctl;
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echo -ne 'n\\x1a' | nc -q 0 127.0.0.1 12345
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can report certain "events" to an external application (see
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). This application is started with the event name as it's first argument. More
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information (artist, title, album, stationName, error code, error description,
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song length in milliseconds, rating) is supplied through stdin.
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Currently supported events are: artistbookmark, songban, songbookmark,
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songexplain, songfinish, songlove, songmove, songshelf, songstart,
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stationaddmusic, stationaddshared, stationcreate, stationdelete,
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stationfetchplaylist, stationquickmixtoggle, stationrename
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An example script can be found in the contrib/ directory of
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Lars-Dominik Braun <PromyLOPh@lavabit.com>
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src/pianobar.1
