mpd info service

Shows info to the current songname, albumtitle and a cover on a simple webpage, for example to view the cover in an "Magic Mirror", displayed on an Raspberrry PI 7 Inch display.

Finds the cover by:

• searching the directory of the song for some default filenames (cover.png etc)
• if no cover could be found, executes a shell script.
• if current song is a stream, looks for a file inside the streams directory (all slashes are replaced by pipes, i.e http:||example.com|stream.m3u

Screenshot

Install

• clone the repo
• install the pythin requirements
• install systemd unit file:
  • edit the systemd mpdinfoservice.service
  • copy the mpdinfoservice.service to /etc/systemd/system,
  • sytstemctl enable and start it

cd /srv/
git clone 
cd mpdinfoservice
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
# vi
cp  mpdinfoservice.service  /etc/systemd/system
systemctl enable /etc/systemd/system/mpdinfoservice.service
systemctl start /etc/systemd/system/mpdinfoservice.service

Configuration

Configuration is done through the following environment variables:

• MPD_HOST: Host mpd runs on (default localhost)
• LISTEN_ON: IP to listen to. (default 127.0.0.1)
• PORT: port to listen
• MPD_ROOT_DIR: local music directory (default /data/Musik)

Logs

Logs can be view with

journalctl -u mpdinfoservice.service