Rofi-Beats

A rofi-like menu for playing lofi radio stations on MacOS.

Dependencies

• choose-gui (rofi/dmenu style menu for MacOS)
• mpv
• terminal-notifier

Installation

Download the dependencies with Homebrew.

If you don't have Homebrew installed, it can quickly be set up by running the following command in your terminal:

$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Once homebrew is installed you can add the relevant packages:

$ brew install choose-gui mpv terminal-notifier

Now clone this repository and give the script executable permissions:

$ git clone https://github.com/Carbon-Bl4ck/Rofi-Beats
$ cd Rofi-Beats
$ chmod +x rofi-beats

Now the script is ready to use!

./rofi-beats

Linux 🐧

The linux version of this script is pretty much identical, replacing terminal-notifier with notify-send, and choose-gui with the aponymous rofi

To install notify-send and rofi enter the following:

For Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt install rofi notify-osd mpv

For Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S rofi notify-osd mpv

Per the MacOS install clone this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/Carbon-Bl4ck/Rofi-Beats
$ cd Rofi-Beats

Now remove the rofi-beats script and rename rofi-beats-linux:

$ rm rofi-beats
$ mv rofi-beats-linux rofi-beats
$ chmod +x rofi-beats

Now test out the script:

$ ./rofi-beats

Usage

The script toggles the radio on and off depending on it's current state.

The script first checks to see if an instance of the radio is already playing.

If it finds the script is already playing music it kills the music. If the radio is not already playing it will launch the list of stations you can choose from.

mpv arguments

You can add options in the ARGS variable in the script to specify those options for running mpv. The default of --volume=60 is already added.

Extra Tips 📝

• I'd highly recommend linking this script to a keybinding, using a tool such as skhd or sxhkd on linux.
• The menu highlight color can be customized by changing the hex value in the choose command preceded by the -b argument (default is set to 'ff79c6').
• The menu width can be changed my modifying the value after the -w tag of the choose command.
• terminal-notifier may need to be given permission to use notifications