MOC-Bar

OSX GUI for MOC

Basic Menu Bar controls for MOC Player: OS-X brew port.

• Controls:

• Play/Pause

• Next Track

• Previous Track

  • WIP Items:

• Now Playing

• Notifications on Item Playing.

The objective basic menu system control from the desktop with little fuss.

• For information about how to get MOC running check out this blog post: MOC on OS X . I have post a stripped down version of the instructions below with my example plist.

Instructions for installing MOC on OSX

Ensure you have Brew for this to work properly and its updated and upgraded:

brew update
brew upgrade

Installing dependencies and moc:

brew install berkeley-db
brew install jack
brew install libmad
brew install libid3tag
brew install moc

Creating your jackd LaunchAgent:

sudo nano /Library/LaunchAgents/org.jackaudio.jackd.plist 

Use my example below. remove -r96000 string if you want it to default to standard output.

Setting Permissions on the LaunchAgent.

sudo chown root /Library/LaunchAgents/org.jackaudio.jackd.plist 

There may be other permissions to set but you can test using:

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/org.jackaudio.jackd.plist

Starting Moc:

mocp 

Note:

You may wish to remove the "-r96000" in the plist below. For my purpose I wanted "jackd" to output at 96000.00 Hz. If you are playing 24bit Flac you will probably want to leave this turned on.

I may build in support to switch from the default Hz to 96000.00 from the menu system. The reason I would implement this is because if you are switching audio sources you may have distorted sound or other various playback issues.

org.jackaudio.jackd.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>org.jackaudio.jackd</string>
	<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
	<string>/Users/ShortName/</string>
	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
	<array>
		<string>/usr/local/Cellar/jack/0.121.3/bin/jackd</string>
		<string>-d</string>
		<string>coreaudio</string>
		<string>-r96000</string>
	</array>
	<key>EnableGlobbing</key>
	<true/>
	<key>RunAtLoad</key>
	<true/>
	<key>KeepAlive</key>
	<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

License

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