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MPC Script – Quickly Find and Play by Album

This is a simple script for MPD & MPC users. It allows you to quickly queue and play an album. I name the script "album" and put it in ~/bin (which is included in my $PATH).

#!/bin/bash
## Shortcut to search, add, and play an album (after clearing current playlist).
## Use -a (for "add") to add the album to the playlist without clearing current playlist.

if [ $1 = -a ]
then
shift
mpc search album "$*" | mpc add ; mpc play
exit
fi

mpc clear
mpc search album "$*" | mpc add ; mpc play

The usage is simple:

album abbey

The above command would stop the song currently playing, clear the current playlist and replace it with The Beatles' Abbey Road, and start playing it. If I had another album with "abbey" in the name, it would have loaded that one as well. Spaces are included as part of the search string -- for example, this also works:

album abbey road

You can use the "-a" switch to add the album to the current playlist. It won't interrupt what's currently playing, it will only put the new album in the queue.

album -a abbey road