MFP Player (unofficial)

Play the Music For Programming series as a playlist in your Obsidian sidebar.

Features

• Playlist: plays every episode, oldest or newest first, and moves on to the next one automatically.
• Resume: remembers where you left off in each episode, even after you restart Obsidian.
• Favourites: right-click an episode to add or remove it, or switch to a favourites-only playlist.
• [refresh]: checks the official feed for new episodes, only when you press it.
• Themes: mfp, invert, mono, amber, and "obsidian", which follows your vault's colours.
• Extras: ASCII EQ, now-playing in the status bar (click to play or pause), and media keys.
• Commands: play/pause, next, previous, random, skip ±30 s, favourite and more. Assign your own hotkeys in Settings → Hotkeys.

Usage

Click the music-note icon in the left ribbon, or run MFP Player: Open player from the command palette. Press [play].

Network use

This plugin needs the internet to work:

• It fetches the public RSS feed from musicforprogramming.net on first run, and when you press [refresh].
• It streams episodes from the official MP3 host (datashat.net). Nothing is downloaded, copied or re-hosted.

There's no telemetry and no account. Progress, favourites and settings are stored in the plugin's data.json in your vault.

Desktop only

Marked desktop only, because background audio on mobile is unreliable.

Support the series

Music For Programming makes no profit and carries no ads. Please consider their Patreon, and buy music from the artists you discover.

If you like the plugin itself, you can buy me a coffee.

Building from source

There are no dependencies. Run python3 build.py to write main.js, styles.css and manifest.json to dist/.

Credits and license

This is an unofficial, fan-made plugin, not affiliated with Music For Programming or Datassette. It is made with the permission of the site's owner, given by email. The mixes are streamed directly from musicforprogramming.net and are never copied or redistributed. All music belongs to its artists.

• Code: MIT © AshOtis
• Font: uses IBM Plex Mono if it's installed on your computer, otherwise your Obsidian monospace font