MPD Notification Daemon

Watches MPD for song change and takes action

Features

• Gathers detailed song info
• Searches filesystem and online for cover art
• Configurable, independent actions
  • Popup - Display song info and cover via libnotify
  • Cava - Change cava color based on cover art
  • Cover - Display cover art on desktop with feh
  • Write - Write current song info to file for easy parsing

Requirements

• zsh
• mpc
• curl
• jq
• imagemagick
• libnotify
• cava (optional)
• feh (optional)

Installation

Manual:

git clone https://github.com/jeffmhubbard/mpnotd-zsh
cd mpnotd-zsh
sudo make install

Usage

To start from terminal:
mpnotd --time 20 -u low --cava -w cur.txt

-C, --config    specify path to config file
-p, --popup     enable notifications (defaults on)
-t, --time      time to display popup (in seconds)
-u, --urgency   urgency level (low, normal, critical)
-v, --cava      enable cava color
-c, --cover     enable cover mode
-w, --write     enable output file
-D, --debug     verbose output
-h, --help      print help

Configuration

# ~/.config/mpnotd/mpnotd.rc

# number of days to cache cover art for
CACHE_DAYS=10

# set title of popup
POPUP_SUBJECT=" Now Playing"

# (if set) format popup body
POPUP_BODY="%title%\n%By %artist%\nFrom %album% (%date%)"

# time to display popup (seconds)
POPUP_DURATION=30

# popup urgency (low, normal, critical)
POPUP_LEVEL=low

# change cava fg color based on cover art
CAVA_ENABLE=true

# (if set) palette to use instead of dominant color
CAVA_COLORS=(fc391f 31e722 eaec23 5833ff f935f8 14f0f0)

# show cover art on desktop
COVER_ENABLE=true

# cover art size
COVER_SIZE=200x200

# cover art position
COVER_POSITION=+20+20

# (if set) time to display cover art
COVER_DURATION=10

# write current song info to file
WRITE_ENABLE=true

# (if set) key-value separator
WRITE_SEP="|"

Notes

For floating cover art with i3

for_window [class="mpnotd"] floating enable
no_focus [class="mpnotd"]