Notifies when mpd's song changes.
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.
You can install mpdnotify in a single command :
pip install mpdnotify
notify-send- Python >= 3.2
- Pillow
- python-mpd2
git clone https://github.com/chuugar/mpdnotify.git
cd mpdnotify
pip3 install -r requirements.txt -e .
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.
- Add a test suite.
- Allow user to change the notification format.
- If cover cannot be found as an image, look at the tags.