Friday, July 19, 2024

pianobar with macports

I got stumped with default settings using pianobar (text-based Pandora client) under MacOS with macports. pianobar is highly configurable; however, something moved since I did this the last time and things did not work. it seems as if the name of the config file changed from pianobar.cfg to config.

mkdir -p ~/.config/pianobar
touch ~/.config/pianobar/config

You then can put your name and password in the file, such as

user = your@user.name
password = password

There are whole bunch of configurations for pianobar, and I sometimes tweak them.
One of the other things that you can do is remove your password explicitly from the config file. I use this:

password_command = gpg --decrypt ~/password

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