Draai is a wrapper around mpc, making playing music from the commandline more
enjoyable.  mpc is a client for MPD, the Music Player Daemon.  Using draai,
one can play an audiofile (ogg, mp3, flac, whatever your MPD offers), play all
files in a predefined playlist, view details on current, past and future playing
songs, skip to the next song, etc.

Main differences with mpc: draai supports smooth fadeouts, draai can be used as
an alarmclock, draai supports rescheduling a track as the upcoming track, draai
offers fancy status windows.  The author uses draai for doing DJ sets in clubs.

The interface is purely command-line.  No fancy gui's whatsoever.  Not even
curses.  Draai consists of just one simple zsh shell script, calling mpc.

Actually, I don't expect many more than one or two users of draai.  The
interface is very much tweaked to my own personal taste.  Furthermore, there
are a zillion alternatives for draai; everybody seems to be writing her own
playlist manager.


PACKAGES
========

If you're using a Debian or Ubuntu system, install draai by executing

 # aptitude update && aptitude install draai

(Debian ships draai since the "squeeze" release.)

There might be draai packages available from non-gnu.uvt.nl too; try:

 # echo "deb http://non-gnu.uvt.nl/debian sid draai" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
 # aptitude update
 # curl http://non-gnu.uvt.nl/debian/uvt_key.asc | apt-key add -
 # aptitude update && aptitude install draai

to install it from there.


SOURCE
======

Source packages are available for download from http://mdcc.cx/pub/draai/.


INSTALLATION
============

For instructions for installation using the tarball (i.e.: not binary packages),
see the file INSTALL.

Special installation information for zsh users:

Draai comes with a zsh completion function, by default installed in
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions.  Make sure this directory is in your
$fpath.  If it isn't, you might want to add

 _sitecompdir=/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
 [[ -z $fpath[(r)$_sitecompdir] ]] && fpath=($fpath $_sitecompdir)

to your ~/.zshrc.

Run compinit after installation of draai.


USAGE
=====

After installation, running

 $ man draai

(or "$ draai --help") gives information on the usage of the draai command-line
tool.


DEVELOPERS
==========

Bleeding edge draai is available using git from
http://git.mdcc.cx/draai.


WHAT OUR USERS SAY
==================

As heard once on irc meuknet/#uvt: < jiggel> osjittisstil <- beste naam van een
commandline optie die ik in lange tijd gezien heb :)


HISTORY
=======

The first draai implementation, probably from about 2001, consisted of a bunch
of zsh shell functions.  The second draai implementation was in python, calling
ogg123 and mpg321.  The first implementation which never made it was in python,
using python-pyvorbis, python-id3 and python-pymad.  The second implementation
which never made it was in python, using python-mpdclient / py-libmpdclient.
The current draai implementation, around since 2007, is a zsh shell script,
calling mpc.


AUTHOR
======

Draai is written by Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb-draai@mdcc.cx>.


THANKS
======

Wessel Dankers for contributing the oggsymlinks script.


MORE INFORMATION
================

The draai webpage is at http://mdcc.cx/draai.