MusicPlayerPlus VS asciimatics

MusicPlayerPlus 2.0.1 release 3 differs substantially from release 2. I'm proud of the work I've done for this release and wanted to share it with the Arch community. Release 3 consists of 112 commits to 119 files and 23 new files including 3 new commands and 6 new backend scripts most of which are designed to provide increased support for multiple platforms, Arch Linux being one of the two new platforms MusicPlayerPlus is being built, tested, and packaged for. See https://github.com/doctorfree/MusicPlayerPlus/compare/v2.0.1r2...v2.0.1r3 for more detailed information on the changes included in release 3 over release 2.

With MusicPlayerPlus, you can stream and play music through several audio packages integrated and extended from its project. MusicPlayerPlus’s initial interaction is with the Music Player Daemon (MPD).

Download the latest Debian, Arch, or RPM package format release for your platform.

MusicPlayerPlus is a character-based console and terminal window music player and media management system.

Version 1.0.3 release 1 of MusicPlayerPlus is now available at the project release page on github. MusicPlayerPlus release assets include Debian format packages for amd64 and armhf architectures (Ubuntu/etc and Raspberry Pi) and an RPM format package for x86_64 architecture (Fedora/etc).

mpcplus, featureful ncurses based Music Player client

For small apps, I may choose a TUI (Terminal User Interface). Curses for Python is very lightweight, but quite low level and difficult to use for anything more than a very simple interface (if your app tries to draw outside of the drawing area, the app crashes, so you have to carefully manage every detail). Textual and asciimatics are both mature TUI frameworks that provide a higher level and more Pythonic way to create TUI's.

If you are looking for something more flexible that just printing to a terminal, take a look at Asciimatics and textual. Both are available from Pypi.

Scroll down to the TUI example in the README, just above the documentation link: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics

Download fireworks.py

Source code: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/blob/master/samples/fireworks.py

I have made yet another ssh connection manager with TUI, using asciimatics and tinyDB.

Personally I dig the aesthetics of asciimatics, it's quite handy and cross-platform.

I've used asciimatics in the past to good effect.

Take a look at rich (kinda new, but pretty neat), asciimatics, or urwid