Request - Artwork For Cmus?

[ghost]

Hello,

Would it be possible to have cmus display artwork, or can it do this already?

As an example Ranger a console based file manager using w3m can display images.

http://ranger.nongnu.org/

[mahkoh]

Do you mean like this: http://ranger.nongnu.org/screenshots/ranger-screenshot_large-image-preview.png

Or via some external program?

[ghost]

Yes, album art displayed in the app and like how deadbeef is with images of the album art displayed on the left side of the screen in this image below;

[mahkoh]

I do not believe that this will ever be implemented.

[ghost]

Sorry for late reply...

thanks

[yagarea]

w3m has great API for in terminal image preview. Filemanager ranger uses that:

This could be very elegant and effective solution.

[gunqqer]

There's also a rust program, viu, which also can do this. I have a working script to show artwork (although a biiit pixelated, gives the real command line feel to it)

#!/bin/bash
#note: does not work with remote URLs, only URIs, image *must* be local
imageViewer="/home/gunqqer/.cargo/bin/viu"
playerName=cmus


currentUrl="$(urlencode -d "$(playerctl --player=$playerName metadata mpris:artUrl)" | sed 's/^file:\/\///')"
clear
viu "$currentUrl"
while true; do
	url="$(urlencode -d "$(playerctl --player=$playerName metadata mpris:artUrl)" | sed 's/^file:\/\///')"
	if [ "$currentUrl" != "$url" ]; then
		currentUrl="$url"
		clear
		$imageViewer "$url"
	fi
	sleep 10
done

edit: original script was pretty bad, better now

[nefthy]

Terminals do not have sufficient capabilities to display images. w3m and ranger do some funky x11 hackery to draw the image over the terminal window. I do not see that going into cmus.

[gunqqer]

Yeah, tbh, while it would be nice to have it in cmus, trying to get w3m/w3mimgdisplay working is not fun at all. Not only are those tools difficult to work with, they don't even work well enough. If you try switching virtual desktops it'll get rid of the image.

Something like FBI or FIM could work better, but that would just be making a new window to display the image which defeats the purpose of having an inbuilt image. So I'd say if you want image viewing you can use my script or make your own way to view images however you want them.

[lochlainn]

@gunqqer if that script is living in a repository now, it would be really useful to link it in the wiki! I'm sure some other people would like to use it as well.

[gunqqer]

@lochlainn Well, here ya are: https://github.com/gunqqer/musicScripts
https://github.com/gunqqer/musicScripts/blob/master/viu.sh
Feel free to submit PRs if you want to improve it