media-control-sway

This program really only works with sway

What media-control-sway does is it polls playerctl and finds the current "players". It then checks what the focused window is and if the focused window is a "player", it will call playerctl on that window. If the focused window is not listed as a "player", it will call playerctl on cmus by default.

This was just a script I wrote for myself. It has been tested with:

• mpv
• cmus
• firefox

It'll probably work with spotify, but I don't use it and haven't tested it.

This project was thrown together quickly, so I expect that there's a lot of area to improve. If you have any suggestions/changed or have packaged this for a distro, just let me know. I'd love to help!

Installing

git clone https://github.com/JeromeSiljanUTA/media-control-sway
cd media-control-sway
make && sudo make install

Add these lines to your sway config:

bindsym --locked XF86AudioPlay exec media-control-sway play-pause
bindsym --locked XF86AudioNext exec media-control-sway next
bindsym --locked XF86AudioPrev exec media-control-sway previous

Dependencies:

• sway
• jq
• playerctl
• make

Uninstalling

sudo make uninstall

Usage

media-control-sway is really just a glorified shell script wrapper for playerctl

It passes whatever argument you give it to playerctl, but specifies the player.

Supported Arguments (taken from Playerctl's README)

Command	Description
play	Command the player to play.
pause	Command the player to pause
play-pause	Command the player to toggle between play/pause.
stop	Command the player to stop.
next	Command the player to skip to the next track.
previous	Command the player to skip to the previous track.
position [OFFSET][+/-]	Command the player to go to the position or seek forward or backward OFFSET in seconds.
volume [LEVEL][+/-]	Print or set the volume to LEVEL from 0.0 to 1.0.
status	Get the play status of the player. Either "Playing", "Paused", or "Stopped".
metadata [KEY...]	Print the metadata for the current track. If KEY is passed, print only those values from the metadata.
open [URI]	Command for the player to open a given URI. Can be either a file path or a remote URL.
loop [STATUS]	Print or set the loop status. Either "None", "Track", or "Playlist".
shuffle [STATUS]	Print or set the shuffle status. Either "On", "Off".

To Do

• Package media-control-sway for AUR
• Make e-build for media-control-sway
• Use wlr-foreign-toplevel protocol
• Add config file functionality that allows changes to default player