Alacritty doesnt show cover art

[xeinye]

Alacritty with ueberzug doesn't showed the cover art and with pixcat crashed
I know that a song I'm listening to has an embedded art. The others functionality work fine, but I'm not seeing the album art

image_method    = ueberzug
music_directory = ~/mus

opt info:
alacritty 0.9.0 (fed349aa)
ueberzug 18.1.9
pixcat 0.1.4

[GuardKenzie]

I think this might be a config issue since I am not able to recreate this issue on my machine using alacritty and ueberzug. Could you please post your mpd.conf?

[xeinye]

I think this might be a config issue since I am not able to recreate this issue on my machine using alacritty and ueberzug. Could you please post your mpd.conf?

Here, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mayinz/dots/main/config/mpd/mpd.conf

[GuardKenzie]

Can you please post your entire miniplayer config file?

Here are a few things you could try:

• Is MPD running as the same user as you? Try using the absolute path to your music directory in the miniplayer config.
• Make sure you have access to write to the /tmp directory.
• Try extracting the album art yourself with ffmpeg -i "path/to/track.extension" "test.png" and see if that works without issues

[xeinye]

Is MPD running as the same user as you? Try using the absolute path to your music directory in the miniplayer config.

Yes and i putted

Make sure you have access to write to the /tmp directory.

I have permission on /tmp
It extracts the cover to tmp, but its not displayed.

e.g ranger with ueberzug on alacritty works well

And once, the mini player gave this output

  File "/usr/bin/miniplayer", line 896, in loop
    self.draw()
  File "/usr/bin/miniplayer", line 864, in draw
    self.drawAlbumArt()
  File "/usr/bin/miniplayer", line 757, in drawAlbumArt
    self.art_placement.width = self.image_width
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ueberzug/lib/v0/__init__.py", line 144, in __setattr__
    self.__update()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ueberzug/lib/v0/__init__.py", line 105, in __update
    self.__canvas.request_transmission()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ueberzug/lib/v0/__init__.py", line 411, in request_transmission
    self.__transmitter.transmit()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ueberzug/lib/v0/__init__.py", line 281, in transmit
    self._process.stdin.flush()
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/miniplayer", line 930, in <module>
    player.loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ueberzug/lib/v0/__init__.py", line 378, in decorator
    return function(*args, canvas=self, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/bin/miniplayer", line 924, in loop
    if error:
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'error' referenced before assignment```

[GuardKenzie]

Do you see no album art at all, or do you see something that looks like placeholder art? If you see no art at all, try configuring font_height and font_width in the config if you have not done so already. (See here for details).

[xeinye]

i see placeholder art and the player "section" is same that example config

[GuardKenzie]

I think you misunderstood my question based on the screenshot you sent me. The only way the player displays placeholder art is if ffmpeg fails to extract the album art from the file. Since you say /tmp/aartminip.png is the correct album art, that cannot be.

Again, based on the screenshot you sent, the values font_height and font_width in your config should be set to

font_width = 10
font_height = 23

• Could you please post the entire contents of ~/.config/miniplayer/config?

• To test if ueberzug is working as intended try running the following python script

  import ueberzug.lib.v0 as ueberzug
  import time
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      with ueberzug.Canvas() as c:
          demo = c.create_placement('demo', x=0, y=0, scaler=ueberzug.ScalerOption.COVER.value)
          demo.path = "/tmp/aartminip.png"
          demo.visibility = ueberzug.Visibility.VISIBLE
          time.sleep(2)

  You should see an image pop up in your terminal for 2 seconds. Make sure /tmp/aartminip.png is some image you know is good.

• Here is a zip file that contains an mp3 with album art embedded which I know works as intended: test.zip. Check if it works on your system.

• Are you using X11 or wayland?

• You can also try reinstalling the entire package and all its dependencies with

  pip install --force-reinstall miniplayer
  

[xeinye]

To test if ueberzug is working as intended try running the following python script

didn't show

Here is a zip file that contains an mp3 with album art embedded which I know works as intended: test.zip. Check if it works on your system.

Are you using X11 or wayland?

X11

You can also try reinstalling the entire package and all its dependencies with

Nothing has changed

Could you please post the entire contents of ~/.config/miniplayer/config?

font_width = 10
font_height = 23
volume_step     = 5
auto_close      = false
album_art_only  = false
show_playlist   = true

[art]
image_method    = ueberzug
music_directory = /home/nix/mus
# http_base_url = http://localhost:6667/cover-art
# http_cover_filenames = cover.jpg cover.png folder.jpg folder.png art.jpg art.png artwork.jpg artwork.png

[mpd]
host   = localhost
port   = 6600
# pass = example

# [keybindings]
# >     = next_track
# <     = last_track
# +     = volume_up
# -     = volume_down
# p     = play_pause
# q     = quit
# h     = help
# i     = toggle_info
# up    = select_up
# down  = select_down
# enter = select```

[xeinye]

I already had the uerb installed via packages in arch, is there any problem? And miniplayer via aur,
but I removed and installed via pip

[GuardKenzie]

Ok, this does not seem to be an issue with miniplayer, but an issue with either ueberzug or alacrity. Try testing using another terminal emulator such as kitty and see if it works on there (also, on kitty you can try the pixcat image method since that is a kitty exclusive).

The only thing I see wrong with the config is that the [player] section is missing.

To be absolutely certain this isn't a file permission issue, try changing this line:

demo.path = "/tmp/aartminip.png"

to some other known good image in your home directory.

Which shell are you using? I just remembered that fish had some issues with ueberzug a while back.

Again, I have not been able to recreate this issue on my machine with the same versions of the packages and alacrity so I don't know what else to do, sorry.

[GuardKenzie]

I already had the uerb installed via packages in arch, is there any problem? And miniplayer via aur,
but I removed and installed via pip

That should not be a problem

[xeinye]

zsh, I will try to redo my configuration

[xeinye]

It didn't solve

[GuardKenzie]

This is clearly not an issue with miniplayer since you cannot even get an image to display with the minimal working example I provided. Try contacting the maintainers of alacritty or ueberzug.