Marcato is a playlist manager for use with mplayer.

$ gem install marcato

First, set any options in your .bashrc or .zshrc:

export MARCATO_MUSIC="/path/to/music"
export MARCATO_FILE="/path/to/.marcato" # defaults to ~/.marcato
export MARCATO_OPTS="--random"          # optional

Playlists can be made on the fly via searching:

$ marcato muse
muse_super-massive-black-hole.mp3
muse_starlight.mp3
$ mplayer `marcato muse`

Playlists are just yaml, each line is a search term:

$ marcato --edit
top-songs:
  - muse
  - beatles

jazz:
  - coltrane
  - jazz-mafia

Access your playlist just like searching for a song. Marcato accepts multiple terms/playlists:

$ marcao jazz beatles

By default, the order of songs is alphabetical. Use the --random flag to shuffle:

$ marcato --random jazz

List out playlists with --list:

$ marcato --list
jazz
top-songs

Copyright (c) Hugh Bien - http://hughbien.com. Released under BSD License, see LICENSE.md for more info.