```yaml title: /Music is_page: true make_discoverable: false ``` # Slash Music 🐈‍⬛ --- At the end of all of my posts, I typically have a song listed and where that song was playing at the time of writing. A big majority of this time, that music is coming from SomaFM. But when it comes to streaming local audio off of one of our external hard drives, that's what we mean when you see *"Vault 333"* or *"local audio"*. When I am playing music on my computer, whether it's SomaFM's internet radio, a YouTube livesteam or playlist, Bandcamp, all sorts of other [internet radio](/radio/), and practically any other source that is not proprietary. This is accomplished by two wonderful applications: - mpv - Tilda MPV is something of a swiss army knife of audio players. If you're hip to things like VLC then you would be pretty familiar with the approach of mpv. If VLC is built for the standard audience at large, mpv is catering to the power users out there. You can invoke mpv via the command-line and listen to music without a graphical interface. This is where Tilda comes in. Tilda is a drop-down terminal for Linux. One slap of the F1 button to invoke mpv to play Groove Salad on SomaFM: ``` mpv -no-video -volume=93 https://somafm.com/groovesalad256.pls ```