updated README

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@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ d:qrupdate
 d:libdispatch
 d:freepats
 d:python3-olefile
-d:deadbeef-opus
 d:fortune-mod-de
 d:python3-leather
 d:python3-agate
@@ -309,9 +308,6 @@ f:171a3b067aa2d35a435ee2d37df065d4:freepats/.footprint
 f:0c09a89ece37d0b1bf450d836e1998e0:python3-olefile/.signature
 f:07e1d9975df180ff5b3fe6c66041d7c3:python3-olefile/Pkgfile
 f:8a65e413efd9d4e6d1a50e7c2b16ba72:python3-olefile/.footprint
-f:cb57ff9140648137a27d4eae3352fb81:deadbeef-opus/.signature
-f:801ce3ede362413491c28b9c10d5edc6:deadbeef-opus/Pkgfile
-f:b1f59452af918cb91d507e0761e3f75e:deadbeef-opus/.footprint
 f:0e86b5c3a2d2ec1a745fcdae99b6ec1c:fortune-mod-de/README
 f:02920424681d70954c845b484da43b66:fortune-mod-de/.signature
 f:de08a73c18f9770223b71357cc6657e4:fortune-mod-de/Pkgfile
@@ -336,7 +332,7 @@ f:c771644583d5eeae51bb7db6e19cf81f:deadbeef-alarm/.signature
 f:cc0fb01dffe503647857a6d1d511cb2c:deadbeef-alarm/Pkgfile
 f:692f2435b0ffafa4d3014a1d56d8fdc7:deadbeef-alarm/Makefile
 f:a33f8fd6cd3eac9152dcde6f1cb6fb87:deadbeef-alarm/.footprint
-f:6d075fe426dfedbfd0578bc1cb888a4c:deadbeef-alarm/alarm.cc
+f:33b8905efc2f40a3914a6375acf82580:deadbeef-alarm/alarm.cc
 f:22142d28d20c3d7a0ac148c877271075:oksh/.signature
 f:88d321b08d3354e14157b55bd7fe073a:oksh/Pkgfile
 f:d75610ef197b7420248d913c319b1d5c:oksh/post-install

deadbeef-alarm/README.md

@@ -8,21 +8,27 @@ Even with its comprehensive set of command-line options, DeaDBeeF is
 ultimately a graphical program, in most cases completely unreachable
 from the restricted environment in which crontab shell scripts are executed.
 The MPRIS plugin[1] does allow some control of the media player from a crontab
-script, but because the dbus session bus address is not exported to cron
+script, but because a script executed by cron usually cannot find the dbus session bus
-tasks, this environment variable must be hard-coded in the shell script
+address in its environment, this variable must be hard-coded in the
-you intend to use for activating DeaDBeeF. (Perhaps a hook for pam_xdg.so
+shell script you intend to use for activating DeaDBeeF. (For a clumsy way to
-could automatically update your shell script after a successful login and
+automate the hard-coding of session bus address, you might add some sed commands
-dbus session launch.) Even after surmounting this obstacle, you'll discover
+to your window manager's autostart script, overwriting a definition line in the
-that the MPRIS plugin implements only one method for selecting a particular
+*activate-DeaDBeeF* script.) Then having surmounting this
-file for playback (OpenUri), and to assemble an entire playlist with this 
+obstacle, you'll discover that the MPRIS plugin implements only one method for
-method you would have to parse the metadata of each song to determine how
+selecting a particular file for playback: OpenUri. Even if xdg-mime could be
-long the parent process should sleep between successive calls of OpenUri.  
+persuaded that the file extension m3u indicates a filetype audio/x-mpegurl rather
+than text/plain (so that the OpenUri argument is not immediately rejected upon
+receipt of the dbus message), the MPRIS plugin only implements OpenUri using
+the method `deadbeef->plt_add_file2`, while a playlist would require
+`deadbeef->plt_load2`. So to assemble an entire playlist using the methods available
+in the MPRIS plugin, you would have to parse the metadata of each song to determine
+how long the parent process should sleep between successive calls of OpenUri.  
 **TLDR**: working around the limitations of crontab and MPRIS is more
 trouble than building a specialized plugin for alarm clock functionality.
 
 To close the gap between DeaDBeeF and its console-interface counterparts
 (moc, mpd, cmus -- all of which *can* be controlled by scripts in a crontab),
-this plugin translates the underlying logic of the audacious alarm
+this plugin translates the essential components of the audacious alarm
 plugin[2] into the DeaDBeeF idiom. The configuration dialog lets you choose
 which days of the week the alarm goes off, what time of day, and which
 playlist you want loaded. Leaving the playlist field empty (or selecting
@@ -37,7 +43,10 @@ list when the alarm goes off.
 The following features were present in the audacious alarm plugin, but
 have not been implemented here.
 
-- Volume fading from quiet to loud after a fixed time interval. If you need that kind of control, the mixer commands for most audio stacks (ALSA, OSS, Pipewire, Pulseaudio, sndio) work fine when executed within crontab scripts, and you can just leave the DeaDBeeF volume slider at its highest level.  
+- Volume fading from quiet to loud after a fixed time interval. If you need that kind of
+control, all the underlying audio stacks (ALSA, OSS, Pipewire, Pulseaudio, sndio) offer
+command-line mixer tools that work fine when executed within crontab scripts, and you
+can just leave the DeaDBeeF volume slider at its highest level.  
 - Stopping the playback after a specified time interval. 
 (TODO: let the plugin itself turn off repeat mode if that behaviour is
 desired, simply by adding a "disable repeat mode" checkbox to the alarm

deadbeef-alarm/alarm.cc

@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ static DB_misc_t plugin = {
         .version_major = 0,
         .version_minor = 1,
 	.id = "alarm",
-	.name = "DeaDBeeF Alarm Clock",
+	.name = "Alarm Clock",
-	.descr = "start playback at a predetermined time",
+	.descr = "load a playlist and start the music at a predetermined time",
         .copyright = "Copyright (C) 2022 John McQuah <jmcquah@disroot.org>\n"
                         "\n"
                         "This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or\n"

deadbeef-opus/.footprint

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/
-drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/deadbeef/
--rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/deadbeef/opus.so

deadbeef-opus/.signature

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-untrusted comment: verify with /etc/ports/jmq.pub
-RWTTPlFarK9CxL3acc0uPtnDWaSB8LDN+wuSrF6EXdGKLJT0JVofyI+NAyKlEkSNlOHzcAn9aDmMesoqQjMMOvBemsAggF8nYgI=
-SHA256 (Pkgfile) = 922a2a13a8299ef7063946c2232f1c79890f6f36164edf63b846ef91b24356ed
-SHA256 (deadbeef-opus-0.8.tar.bz2) = ade79c92a10ae2a181f569bc629481323e5603b2fcf9f34e21deefd45aae4bb8

deadbeef-opus/Pkgfile

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-# Description: opus input plugin for the deadbeef audio player
-# URL: https://bitbucket.org/Lithopsian/deadbeef-opus/
-# Maintainer: John McQuah, jmcquah at disroot dot org
-# Depends on: opusfile deadbeef
-
-name=deadbeef-opus
-version=0.8
-release=1
-source=(https://bitbucket.org/Lithopsian/$name/get/v$version.tar.bz2)
-renames=($name-$version.tar.bz2)
-
-build() {
-	cd *-$name-*
-	make PREFIX=/usr
-	mkdir -p $PKG/usr/lib/deadbeef
-	install -m 0755 opus.so $PKG/usr/lib/deadbeef
-}