streaming random music from bandcamp by specified genre subgenre inspired on https://github.com/strizhechenko/bandcamp-player
bandcamp-player-evo ["genre"] ["sub genre"]
Genres can be found on the bandcamp homepage. Slashes spaces and &'s in the genre name should be replaced by dashes (hip-hop/rap becomes hip-hop-rap r&b/soul becomes r-b-soul, field recordings becomes field-recordings). If a certain genre subgenre combo does not work, bandcamp-fetch gets you a random album from the "all" category. You can enter "" as the second argument in order to play from all subgenres of that genre. This equates to "all-genre". Check more genre values in https://github.com/patrickkfkan/bandcamp-fetch/blob/867dd856c9865b716cddce73cd7a8ccd6b03309b/examples/discovery/getAvailableOptions_output.txt#L1411
MPV
check https://mpv.io/manual/master/ for keyboard controls of the mpv cli music player (eg arrows to scrub, ">" to go to next track)
install node and npm https://nodejs.org/en/download/, tutorial (https://radixweb.com/blog/installing-npm-and-nodejs-on-windows-and-mac)
install python version 3.4 or above+
install mpv (https://mpv.io/installation/)
install bandcamp-fetch (https://github.com/patrickkfkan/bandcamp-fetch ) with
npm i bandcamp-fetch --save
cd into the bandcamp-player-evo folder
assuming you have cloned bandcamp-player-evo in your home folder:
Test it by running node ~/bandcamp-player-evo/bandcamp_parser/scrape.js "." "ambient" "drone" if no error is given and the albums.json file in /bandcamp_parser has in it's results the correct ambient and drone params, you're good to go.
make sure again you are in the folder you downloaded from github
from your home folder:
cd bandcamp-player-evo
install the package
pip install -e .
bandcamp-player is a small command-line app to stream audio from BandCamp.com. It requires the Python interpreter, version 3.4+.
You also need mpv installed.
You also need node installed (for scrape.js)
You also need https://github.com/patrickkfkan/bandcamp-fetch (for scrape.js)
Bugs should be reported in the issues section