Automatize playlist creation using sed

sed did it again

Ok so I adapted a dwmblocks script. It basically grabs the output from mpc and appends the stripped content to a given file. In my case, I wanted to log songs from a big archive of classical music I’m listening to and automatically output it in markdown-like format. Or, in other words, add a - before the songname and output it. Soo, here’s my little script.

#!/bin/sh

echo -n "- ">> $1
printf " %s"$(mpc | sed "/^volume:/d;s/\\&/&/g;s/^/ /;s/ \\[paused\\].*/⏸/g;/\\[playing\\].*/d" | sed -e 's/-//g') >> $1
echo >>$1

I left the ⏸ emoji because I like it. It feels like a personal touch (although I’m not sure if I added it or just left it there).

I also had to create an alias for calling the script

alias mlist="addmus ~/list.md"

I’m using the resulting markdown file with Youtube Playlist Helper<\a> in order to export it online.