mpdnotify

Notifies when mpd's song changes.

Installation

It has been test on Debian 9.5, it shall work on any other Linux distribution with Python >= 3.2. Please let me now if it works on OSX.

PyPa

For now, mpdnotify is not a PyPa's package.

Manual

Requirements

• notify-send
• Python >= 3.2
• Pillow
• python-mpd2

Installation

git clone https://github.com/chuugar/mpdnotify.git
cd mpdnotify
pip3 install -r requirements.txt -e .

Usage

A few arguments can be passed to mpdnotify :

• -a / --appname : specifies the app name for notify-send.
• -c / --config : path to the configuration file.
• --host : mpd's address.
• -m / --musicdir : path to mpd's music library folder.
• -p / --port : mpd's server port.
• -o / --oneshot : send a notification and exit immediately.

All this arguments can be save in a configuration file, please see mpdnotifyrc.sample for further informations.

Once running, mpdnotify will wait for the next song to send a notification (unless -o / --oneshot has been passed). Cover is used as notification icon if a file (cover/front/album).(png/jpg) is find in the same folder as the music file.

TODO

• Add a test suite.
• Allow user to change the notification format.
• If cover cannot be found as an image, look at the tags.