Get current song info with global shortcut

[alienator]

Hi, it is possible to get the current song info, using a global shortcut?

Lets say I am working with gimp, and listening an online radio, I like the song currently played, so I hit the global shortcut to get that info, and pasted into a text file, all this without having to change from gimp to strawberry.

[saintamh]

I use playerctl for that (on Ubuntu 22.04)

• playerctl --player=strawberry metadata prints out all metadata for the current track
• playerctl --player=strawberry metadata xesam:title specifically specifies the title

On Linux you could also try using notify-send to display the title as desktop notification, perhaps something like this:

notify-send "$(playerctl --player=strawberry metadata xesam:title)"

[alienator]

Thanks that is useful