Nancho

Automatically pause MPRIS music players (e.g. spotify) when another application (e.g. your browser) starts playing sound.

Compilation dependencies

Ubuntu

sudo apt install libdbus-1-dev libpulse-dev meson

Arch linux

sudo pacman -S dbus pulseaudio meson

Compile and install

mkdir build
meson setup build
meson install

Then as normal user

systemctl --user enable nancho

Running from commandline

Automatically pause music player when a trigger starts playing sound
Usage:
  Nancho [OPTION...]

  -c, --cooldown arg  Time in minutes after which the music will no longer resume. 0 disables cooldown (default: 0)
  -d, --delay arg     Time in seconds to wait before pausing music (default: 0)
      --trigger arg   Names of the binaries that trigger a switch (default: firefox)
  -p, --player arg    Name of the binary that is controlled by the switch.(default: spotify)
      --debug         Enable debugging
  -h, --help          Print this help message

Acknowledgements

Uses code adapted from:

dbus-print-message by Philip Blundell (GPL)
pulsetest by Jason White (Public Domain)
dbus-sample by MakerCrew on GitHub (MIT license)