pianod mit Homebrew, MacPorts installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• piano
• pianod
• runmix

Projektgeschichte

Perette Barella developed pianod as an open-source Pandora-oriented music daemon. The later pianod2 design expanded the program into a music server for Pandora and local collections and introduced text, JSON, WebSocket, HTTP, and TLS control surfaces.

Adoptionsgeschichte

pianod was packaged by both Homebrew and MacPorts. Its official documentation also describes a successor, pianod2, with an incompatible line protocol and broader local-library support.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run the player as a daemon and control it with the included piano shell client, netcat, telnet, WebSockets, or HTTP-based clients. pianod2 offers traditional line-oriented commands as well as JSON requests.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

pianod is notable as a Unix-style alternative to graphical streaming clients: a background music service controlled through small shell tools, sockets, or other independently developed interfaces.

Zeitleiste

• 2012: Official runmix manual documents the pianod companion tooling.
• Later development: pianod2 succeeds the original design with a new, incompatible protocol and support for Pandora and local music collections.

Related projects

• pianobar and its libpiano library belong to the same ecosystem of command-line Pandora clients; pianod2 documentation identifies its Pandora/libpiano interface as a distinct part of the implementation.

Quellen

• Official pianod2 documentation: https://deviousfish.com/Pianod/Documentation/pianod.html
• Official project reflection: https://deviousfish.com/reflections.html
• source_facts.package-manager