gophergala2016/jable

Name: jable

Owner: gophergala2016

Description: A minimalist YouTube audio player for the console.

Created: 2016-01-22 19:22:38.0

Updated: 2017-04-03 14:25:09.0

Pushed: 2016-01-24 20:03:49.0

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Language: Go

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README

Jable

A minimalist YouTube audio player for the console.

Motivation

As a tabbro^tm, my browser often overloads my RAM and CPU with things I don't really need. YouTube music tabs are one of the main perpetrators. And as a developer, I spend most of my time inside a terminal. You can see where this is going… Listening to YouTube music from your terminal, provided by Jable.

Bonus points - it will also work for podcasts, talks, just about anything you don't have to actually look at.

Installation

If you are on 64-bit Linux, you can download the binary:

Otherwise, you will have to build Jable yourself, instructions down below.

Usage

Jable is technically a terminal inside your terminal. Once you start Jable you will be presented with jable: cli. Right now Jable has only basic functions:

• play [QUERY] searches YouTube for your [QUERY], fetches the first result and plays it. If Jable is already playing something, play command will add the song to the queue. You can queue up to 10 songs.
• pause will pause the current playback.
• resume will continue the playback where it was previously paused.
• skip will skip the current song and start playing the next song in the queue.
• help presents you with a nice help dialog, listing all Jable features.
• exit gracefully quit Jable, but we all know Ctrl+C is more convinient.

Build Jable from source

Grab the source:

git clone https://github.com/gophergala2016/jable cd jable

First you need to install some dependencies:

apt-get install libao-dev libmpg123-dev go get bitbucket.org/weberc2/media/ao go get bitbucket.org/weberc2/media/mpg123

Then just build like any Go program:

go build

If something goes wrong, try building with cgo enabled, because imported mpg123 and ao packages are linking before mentioned libmpg123 and libao.

CGO_ENABLED=1 go build

If application is working, but there is no audio output, please make sure your libao coniguration points to correct audio driver in /etc/libao.conf.

Gopher Gala

This is a submission for 2016 Gopher Gala by kortemy.