Mpv-Playlistmanager

Mpv lua script to create and manage playlists.

This script allows you to see and interact with your playlist in an intuitive way. The key features are removing, reordering and playing files. Additional features include resolving url titles, stripping filenames according to patterns and creating/saving/shuffling/sorting playlists.

Default visual cues(might render differently on browsers):
○ default file
▷ playing file
● hovered file(for removing, playing and moving)
▶ playing and hovered file
➔ selected file(file is being moved)
➤ playing and selected file
It will make sense once you try the script!

Installation

Copy the playlistmanager.lua file to your mpv scripts directory which is usually ~/.config/mpv/scripts/ or %APPDATA%/mpv/scripts/. See https://mpv.io/manual/master/#files and https://mpv.io/manual/master/#script-location for more detailed information.

Settings

You can modify behaviour of the script in the settings variable in the lua file or a playlistmanager.conf lua-setting file in script-opts directory. Note: the conf file will override any changed setting in the lua file. There is a playlistmanager.conf file in this repo with the default values of the script for reference.

You can pass settings from the command line on startup such as mpv --idle=once --script-opts=playlistmanager-loadfiles_on_start=yes.

You can also change settings during runtime with a keybind or command like KEY change-list script-opts append playlistmanager-showamount=10.

If you are using save-position-on-quit then the playlist will by default write watch later config when switching between files. There is a setting to disable this.

Title resolving

This script is able to resolve titles for local files with ffprobe and urls with youtube-dl. See the resolve_url_titles, resolve_local_titles, prefer_titles and youtube_dl_executable settings for details.

Keybinds

Static keybindings

• showplaylist(SHIFT+ENTER)
  • Displays the current playlist and loads the dynamic keybinds for navigating

Functions without default keybindings

• sortplaylist
  • Sorts the current playlist with stripped values from filename(not media title, no paths, usercreated strips applied). To start playlist from start you can use a script message KEY script-message playlistmanager sortplaylist startover. Settings involving sort include alphanumeric sort(nonpadded numbers in order, case insensitivity), sort on mpv start and sort on file added to playlist. Sort algorithm credit zsugabubus
• shuffleplaylist
  • Shuffles the current playlist. Stops currently playing file and starts playlist from start of new playlist unlike native shuffle that doesn't shuffle current file.
• reverseplaylist
  • Reverses the current playlist. Does not stop playing the current file.
• loadfiles
  • Attempts to load all files from the currently playing files directory to the playlist keeping the order. Option to run at startup if 0 or 1 files are opened, with 0 opens files from working directory. On startup with no file requires --idle=yes or --idle=once.
• saveplaylist
  • Saves the current playlist to m3u file. Saves to mpv/playlists/ by default. If you want to name playlists manually rather than the automatic naming you can use playlistmanager-save-interactive.lua module. It will prompt for a name when you save the playlist.

The above functions do not have default keybindings(except for showplaylist). There is a couple of ways to bind keys for them:

• Edit the playlistmanager.lua settings
  • Downside: you have to merge two versions if you want to update the script
• Edit the playlistmanager.conf settings
  • Upside: you can update the playlistmanager.lua file without losing your configurations
• Edit input.conf with for example KEY script-binding playlistmanager/showplaylist
  • in above example you might want to remove the default keybind of showplaylist or use --no-input-default-bindings

If you want to use the above controls from a "gui" rather than keybinds, then you can check out mpv-menu and use the menu.json found in this repository.

Dynamic keybindings for navigating the playlist

• moveup(UP)
• movedown(DOWN)
• movepageup (Page Up)
• movepagedown (Page Down)
• movebegin (Home)
• moveend (End)
• removefile(Backspace)
  • Removes the file currently selected with the cursor from the playlist
• playfile(Enter)
  • Opens the file currently selected with the cursor, if cursor on playing file, open the next file
• selectfile(RIGHT or LEFT)
  • Selects or unselects the file under the cursor
  • When moving the cursor the selected file will follow, allowing reordering of the playlist
• unselectfile(no default bind)
  • Unselects the file under the cursor if it was selected
• closeplaylist(ESC)

Dynamic keybinds will only work when playlist is visible. Dynamic binds cannot be defined in input.conf, only in playlistmanager.lua or playlistmanager.conf. There is a setting to change the binds to static ones, which allows you to define keybindings in input.conf.

Script messages

In order to control the playlistmanager from other script it registers some script messages. The script messages can also be invoked by keybinds KEY script-message playlistmanager command value value2.

List of commands, values and their effects:

Command	Value	Value2	Effect
show	playlist	- / duration / toggle	show for default duration, show for given seconds, toggle playlist visibility
show	playlist-nokeys	- / duration / toggle	same as above but don't bind dynamic keys to navigate playlist
show	filename	- / seconds	shows stripped filename for default or set seconds
sort	startover	-	Sorts the playlist, any value will start playlist from start on sort
shuffle	-	-	Shuffles the playlist
reverse	-	-	Reverses the playlist
loadfiles	- / path	-	Loads files from playing files dir(default), or specified path
save	- / filename	-	Saves the playlist
playlist-next	-	-	Plays next item in playlist (position of current file saved)
playlist-prev	-	-	Plays previous item in playlist (position of current file saved)
playlist-next-random	-	-	Jumps to a random file in the playlist
close	-	-	Hides the playlist if it's being rendered

examples:
RIGHT playlist-next ; script-message playlistmanager show playlist Shows the playlist after playlist-next. Note that the playlist-next is native mpv command, not the playlistmanager one.
KEY show-text "Shuffled playlist" ; script-message playlistmanager shuffle Text message on shuffle

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