Cmus-dunstify

A cmus status notification program made for easy configuration and portability.

Note

This script was forked and slightly altered from the awesome cmus-notify by dcx86r.

Basically I replaced notify-send with dunstify, which allows use of the -r flag to replace a previous notication with the same ID. I added the -r argument to this script, so now you will no longer recieve annoying stacks of notifications if you're rapidly playing/pausing or flipping through songs.

I have not altered filepaths with cmus-notify in the name, but I can do so if needed.

Requirements:

• cmus
• perl
• dunstify
• ffmpeg (optional)
• PerlMagick (optional)

Installation:

• git clone https://github.com/dcx86r/cmus-notify
• install HTML::Entities module from CPAN
• [sudo] sh installer.sh install

...and to uninstall:

• [sudo] sh installer.sh uninstall

If using a previous version, uninstall old version before installing new one

Configuration:

Configuration is accomplished via file, which is installed to $HOME/.config/cmus/notify.cfg on first run. The file is prepopulated with some default values that can be modified or added to.

The default config values:

artist i:title duration

All possible config values:

file artist album duration title tracknumber date nomarkup covers

Album art is not shown by default, adding the value covers to the config file enables that option.

Markup can be used by prepending config values with b, i, or u -- meaning bold, italicized, underlined.
All can be used together, e.g. ibu:artist ui:title. Markup tags do not apply to nomarkup or covers.

The default is to assume the notification application parses markup. If it does not, then nomarkup should be supplied in the config file.

Activate in cmus:

:set status_display_program=/usr/local/bin/cmus-notify

Rounding corners

In order to use the functionality to round corners on album art, PerlMagick must be installed first.

With PerlMagick installed, the covers option in the config file must be appended with two values:

1. image size
2. corner radius

The image size setting should match the expected size shown in the notification application (e.g. 64, 128).
For example, covers:128:8 sets the image size to 128px and the corner radius to 8.

Notes

In general: errors are logged to $HOME/.local/share/cmus-notify/error.log

Album art support:

• cmus-notify uses ffmpeg to extract art from media files
• art is cached on disk at $HOME/.local/share/cmus-notify/covers
• the cache has no size limits imposed
• a placeholder image is shown if a file has no embedded art
• placeholder is also shown if art has not yet been cached (e.g. on first play of a file), this is because ffmpeg takes anywhere between 1-5+ seconds to perform the extraction, so whatever is available is shown instead of waiting an indeterminate amount of time