mpdart

!! No longer maintained !!

I haven't touched this script in a while, as I no longer regularly use MPD for mp3 playback. Feel free to fork and hack away.

This is a quick script to display the embedded artwork song that is currently playing on MPD. It does so by:

• Reading your .mpdconf file to determine the library location
• Getting the current song filename from mpc
• Extracting the image data with ffmpeg
• Calling imgcat to display the image in your terminal, or
• Displaying a short message about the lack of artwork

Dependencies

• mpd (the entire point here is displaying mpd's current track)
• mpc
• ffmpeg
• imgcat (available from here)
• tput (usually installed by default)

TODO:

- Read artwork directly from the file via byte offsets (abandon ffmpeg)
- Read the folder.jpg/cover.jpg file that may exist in the directory
- Figure out what's happening with mpc appending the track number to the end of the status line