Tim replying. To add an album, search for the tracks by album-name $ mpc search album "crystal planet" and pipe that list of files to "mpc add" to add them to the playlist: $ mpc search album "crystal planet" | mpc add Hope this helps, -tim On July 22, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list