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    because Geeks ❤ good music!

What is Geek Player

This is a simple CLI player that does simple thing, and some complex things that music players should do while getting out of your way so you can enjoy writing your code!

Not a geek? Become one :-)

You will need NodeJs. Who doesn't?

You may not be a NodeJs developer but you certainly might have encountered it while packaging your Javascript resources or generating css from Sass. Right?

If not, then here is your opportunity, because Geek Player is a NodeJs Module.

What else do you need?

Essentially the player uses FFMPEG's, FFPLAY to play/stream audio. So if you have that installed, that's awesome. If not, the a version compatible with your system (Windows, MacOS or Linux) will be automatically downloaded and used.

Getting started

Install GeekPlay globally with npm install -g geekplay.

NOTE: I have heard that complaints that there are issues installing this with yarn add --global. So please use npm for now.

Playing your music

To play your music, simply send the command: GeekPlay edm if you love EDM music like I do.

Sample Animation

Under the hood, GeekPlay will search YouTube for "EDM" or whatever other term you give it and start streaming those tracks as audio in your CLI.

For advanced usage, please read the Player Documentation.

Contributing

Please share your views and report any bugs you might come across. And enjoy the music!

Special thanks to Joseph who tried out the very first tests of this player YT-VLC immediately saw the potential and challenged me to go the whole way.