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In the settings, you can set a keyboard shortcut to run a shell or system command. There are also separate options to run shell or system commands on selected songs. I have never seen any documentation that explains how to use this.

First, I don't understand the difference between a system command and a shell command. Second, let's say I want to run a shell command,

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cp * ~/Temp where * are my selected songs. What would be the syntax in the arguments?

I'm interested in using this feature, but I'm curious to see some examples of this in action. How do you bind keys to system, shell and perl commands?

Hi there,

I'm trying to stream songs with icecast. On a remote machine, I'll open a network stream like this:

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mplayer http://192.168.1.127:8000

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vlc http://192.168.1.127:8000

In either case, the stream works when the song's playing, and it stays open when I'm seeking, or pause/playing. But when a song ends and goes to a new song, the stream also ends.

VLC has some pretty complicated commandscommands to keep the stream open, but none of them work for me.

MPV supposedly has a way to keep a stream open, even if it pauses on the server:

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mpv http://192.168.1.127:8000 --keep-open=always --keep-open-pause=no

But this doesn't work for me, either. Basically, no matter what I use to receive gmusicbrowser's stream, it closes as soon as a song ends.

I see on this forum that people have sucessfully used the icecast feature, so how do I make it work for me?

I have wanted this functionality as well. However, there is a context menu entry in the main browser called 'play only selected'. I have bound this to a hotkey, ctrl+p. So when I filter down to what I want, I hist control+P and I can now navigate through songs from the browser.

If I skip down to something else, then go back one song, it will go to the previous song in the browser list, not the previous song actually played. This is how I achieve a 'persistent' queue -- although it uses the playlist instead.

Since I posted this, I realized that you can add a filter to the statusbar under your 'Album' tab, and incrementally filter up to albums that have x number if tracks in your library. So this is close to what I was suggesting -- though it would still be good to get this as a rule when creating filters, and it would still be good to be able to use this against total filters, because a 5-track album and a 18-track album might both be full albums.

Would it be possible to shuffle a playlist in a distributed way? Meaning, it would try to play every artist once before it played any artist again. So let's say you had a bunch of artists with one song each, and one artist with 8 songs. The playlist would try to play 8 different artists before it played the one with 8 songs, so the recurrence would be distributed across the playlist.

The idea is that you're always getting variety, like on the radio where they (hopefully) wouldn't play the same artist twice in a row, or twice within a 20 minute period, et cetera.

Before using gmusicbrowser, I was using Clementine, which uses SQLite. I wrote a few queries that would help me create playlists based on length and number of tracks. So I can have a playlist of all albums with 10 or more songs on them, 'EPs' (5-7 tracks), 'Singles' (1-2 tracks), and I also have lists of albums that are over an hour, under 45 minutes, et cetera.

When clementine scans your library, it keeps the track lengths in the db. I assume gmusicbrowser does as well, because it can quickly calculate the total runtime. What do you think about adding 'album length' and 'tracks per album' as filter criteria?

I know sometimes the track number field is written as 4/12, where '12' is the total number of tracks. If this were in use, it would be possible to filter complete/incomplete albums.

I see that gmusicbrowser allows multiple genre tags. Is it possible to also have multiple album tags? I have some songs that appear on an LP, and also a soundtrack or compilation. The recording is identical but I want the song to be in multiple albums when appropriate. Is this even feasible?