Bookmark CLI for media players to resume where you left off in audiobooks and podcasts.
playerbm is a command-line utility that saves your place when you exit the player or change the track and automatically resumes from where you left off when you open it again. This is useful if you listen to long audiobooks or lectures over many sessions.
Pass the command to open your media player to playerbm and it will connect to the player begin managing bookmarks.
# Open your audiobook with mpv
playerbm mpv ~/audiobooks/war-and-peace.mp3
If you've opened the file with playerbm before, it should seek to the last known position. When you exit the player, it will save a bookmark and open the file to that location next time.
To list all the bookmarks that playerbm is managing, use the --list-bookmarks flag.
# Print a readable list of all your bookmarks
playerbm --list-bookmarks
To resume playback from the last bookmark that was saved, use the --resume flag. This will open the last saved url in a player that is playing the file or open a new player with the default media player using xdg-open (usually provided by the package xdg-utils). You can pass a FILE to the --resume flag to resume playing from the last bookmark for a particular file. For some help on setting a default media player, see this Gist.
# Resume playing the last opened bookmark
playerbm --resume
# Resume playing the last opened bookmark for your podcast
playerbm --resume ~/podcasts/true-crime.mp3
To save a bookmark when playerbm is not managing the player, you can use the --save flag to save bookmarks for all running media players. If PLAYER is passed as a comma separated list, it will only save bookmarks for those players. You can see what players can be connected to with the --list-players flag.
# Save bookmarks for your running media players
playerbm --save
# Print all the players running on your system
playerbm --list-players
# Only save a bookmark for mpv
playerbm --save mpv
go get -u github.com/altdesktop/playerbm
playerbm should support any media player that implements the MPRIS D-Bus Interface Specification. If your player does not work well with playerbm, open an issue on Github and I'll look into supporting it. Contributions are welcome.
Known working players:
You can use this code under an MIT license (see LICENSE).
© 2019, Tony Crisci