✨ Find album art for the currently playing song in MPD ✨

This is a fork of kunst with less features. I removed all features that I did not need. What is left is that kunst will wait for a song change and then look for cover.jpg/png/webp images in the songs folder. If found the image will be copied to /tmp/kunst.jpg and resized.

See Display album art on how I display the images.

kunst is a daemon that extracts the album art from the songs playing in mpd and saves them in /tmp. It doesn't loop on a timer, instead it waits for mpd to send a player event. When it receives a player event, it wakes up and extracts the album art of the current playing track. This makes kunstreally lightweight and makes it idle at ~0% CPU usage. If there is no album art found, it will show a placeholder.

Dependencies

• convert (imagemagick)
• bash
• mpc

Installation

Install using make

# Clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/CodeWithMa/kunst.git

# Change your current directory to kunst
$ cd kunst

# Install it
$ sudo make install

Run it from source

# Clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/CodeWithMa/kunst.git

# Change your current directory to kunst
$ cd kunst

# Run it
$ ./kunst

Usage

$ kunst --help
usage: kunst [-h|--help] [--size "px"]
             [--music_dir "path/to/dir/"] [--verbose] [--version]

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Find album art for the currently playing song in MPD

optional arguments:
   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
   --size                what size to display the album art in
   --music_dir           the music directory which MPD plays from
   --verbose             show the output
   --version             show the version of kunst you are using

Configure

You can configure kunst through environment variables.

# The size of the album art to be displayed
export KUNST_SIZE="250x250"

# Where your music is located
export KUNST_MUSIC_DIR="/home/username/Music/"

Display album art

I use feh to display the image written to /tmp/kunst.jpg. feh will automatically switch to a new image if it changes on disk.

feh --image-bg black -Z -. /tmp/kunst.jpg

License

MIT License

Copyright © 2019 Siddharth Dushantha Modified by CodeWithMa 2023