Lars here. On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 01:24:03PM -0500, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Tim here. > > > In ncmpc I can choose one artist, and brows through all the > > albums. Is there an equivalent command in mpc to list only the > > albums from one artist? > > Sure. The "mpc search" command spits out the filename, but you can > use the "--format"/"-f" parameter to specify the field/format you > want, so you can specify that you just want the album from each one. > It will print one for each matching MP3 file, but that output can be > sent to the "sort" command and made unique: > > mpc -f '%album%' search artist satriani | sort -u > > gives me just the album-names for all my Joe Satriani music, each > only appearing once. > > For better or worse, it finds the artist in the ID3 data "artist" > information, so I happen to have one track that's on a Stu Hamm album > where Joe Satriani was playing and ended up in the ID3 data, so it > does return that bootleg recording in addition to the normal studio > albums by Satriani. But I kinda prefer it that way. Thanks a lot. And if I want to add the whole album to the current playlist, what do I do then? Lars _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list