I download my music videos and shuffle them in mpv. Sometimes i want a certain song so i want like a hotkey to open ~/Music\ Videos/ and search for a file. I used rofi file browser extended from the aur but i cant get it to compile on debian
fzf is a great tool for this job. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/examples
I tried that but it searches the entire filesystem
You should be able to change directory to the one you want. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/examples#changing-directory
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#!/bin/bash video_directory="~/Music Videos/ " while true; do read -p "Enter music video: " prompt find "$video_directory" -type f -name "*$prompt*" -exec umpv {} \; done
umpv:
There are file browsers for mpv, probably what you want. https://github-wiki-see.page/m/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/User-Scripts
They remove the shuffle playlist
Shuffle playlist as a shortcut or cli-argument? Shortcuts can be customized in inputs config.
Also there are three in the list (only searching for „browse“): blackbox, file-browser, simple-loader
file-browser (or mpv-file-browser) can be customized for shortcuts. blackbox and simple-loader i could not find if they can be.
I use --shuffle
Do you launch with shuffle, some songs shuffle, add new song via browser and it plays the new next and not later? Or does it break the playlist? If the latter, maybe create an issue with the browser, sounds like a bug.
When i choose a file, it clears the playlist
Yep that sounds like a bug. You can report it on github, all three scripts have repos.
I know a few terminal-based file managers but I don’t think those will help solve your problem. I recommend you to somehow port ( I don’t see why rofi doesn’t work on your debian tho ) rofi onto debian so that you can keep on your workflow.
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This is the error
I’m completely not sure, but did you clone the repository with recursive flag?
It’s presumably related to your includePath or something.
P.S. I think I’ve figured out:
You need to have rofi ^1.6.1 installed on your system.
https://github.com/marvinkreis/rofi-file-browser-extended#dependencies
Oh. Rofis 1.7.3
It says 1.6.1+, so 1.7.3 should be fine.
Hmm whats the issue then
According to the error message, it doesn’t find the mode.h file which is included in the rofi-dev package. Did you install that?
I just did and it compiled! Thank u
