cmus_daemon / cmusd

This is a script to start, stop and access cmus, a powerful console music player, as well as the web-remote-control-server cmus_app detached to a screen.
You can quickly send some commands while cmus is in background or use the webinterface.
It comes with a systemd.service in order to automatically run as a daemon at machine-startup.

Dependencies

You need, of course, all the stuff that it's about cmus, screen and cmus_app

Note: this is supposed to just work. Paths don't necessarily need to be your home-folder.

Installing dependencies in debian:

$ sudo apt install cmus cmus-plugin-ffmpeg screen
$ cd ~
$ git clone git://github.com/ichier/cmus_app

• Run cmus and set a password on options-screen.
• Edit ./cmus_app/config according to your needs, don't forget the password.

Installing cmusd

First, navigate to the folder you want the program in, get cmusd, put a symlink to /usr/bin and create your config file:

$ cd ~
$ git clone git://github.com/ichier/cmus_daemon
$ cd ./cmus_daemon
$ ln -s ./cmusd /usr/bin/cmusd
$ ln -s ./cmusr /usr/bin/cmusr
$ cp ./cmusd.service.conf ./cmusd.conf

• Now edit ./cmusd.conf according to your needs.
  At least do the password and replace all occurences of myusername to your username. That will be the owner of the screens created.

Installing the cmusd systemd-service

First, create the service-file:

$ cp ./cmusd.service.example ./cmusd.service

• Now edit ./cmusd.service by changing all occurences of myusername.

Continue with creating a symlink to /etc/systemd/system, enabling and starting it:

$ ln -s ./cmusd.service /etc/systemd/system/cmusd.service
$ systemctl enable cmusd
$ systemctl start cmusd

Usage

• just type cmusd without parameters to get help.

Most useful:

• cmusd start to start in background
• cmusd stop to stop
• cmusd p to start playback
• cmusd g to get cmus screen (ctrl-a + d to detach)
• cmusd rw to restart webserver (sometimes hangs)
• cmusd dst to show systemd-status of cmusd

tested on a ubuntu server 19.10