A simple player to play anime songs.
This guide assumes you're using Windows. If you use something else, good luck.
By default, this music player uses mpv to play music. To install (including to PATH), I'd recommend first installing Chocolatey, then installing mpv using Chocolatey.
For a list of mpv shortcuts to use during song playback, check the mpv manual. TL;DR use 0
or 9
to adjust volume, Space
to pause and q
to end playback of the current song.
To help with anime song memorisation, this music player can output the current song to a file, where it can be read by Rainmeter to display it on the screen.
To use the provided overlay of the current playing song using Rainmeter, you can make a symlink using the command below to add the skin to Rainmeter (requires admin on Windows 10).
cd path/to/this/music/player/folder
mklink /d "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\CurrentlyPlaying" "%CD%\skins\CurrentlyPlaying"
You may also need to refresh the skin to make it show up properly because Rainmeter can be funny sometimes.
Before playing songs, you need to download a list. Use AnisongDB to search and download .json
files. You can place these files into a folder (let's call it lists
), or into subdirectories for better organisation.
To play lists (aka those .json
files) inside the lists
directory, use the following command:
player --list lists
Note the above command does not search folders recursively. If you've put files into subdirectories, you need to specify them:
player --list lists\firstlist lists\someotherlist
The player also understands individual files:
player --list lists\overlord_ii.json lists\overlord_iv.json
There are many options to adjust how you want the player to behave. You can either make changes to the options.conf
file, or specify command line arguments. View those command line arguments by using
player --help
The above lists example can instead be done through the options.conf
file, for example.
To go back a song, close the current player (q
by default) and quickly press q
. Simply, just double tap the q
button.
To end the playlist, close the current player and quickly press Escape
.