From aa9ac98efb1965cb261881ed10f35f166288574f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: p3rxxx0n <p3rxxx0n@proton.me>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2023 19:29:35 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Modified player-mpris-simple to slice metadata

---
 .../player-mpris-simple.sh                    | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/polybar-scripts/player-mpris-simple/player-mpris-simple.sh b/polybar-scripts/player-mpris-simple/player-mpris-simple.sh
index 9901b211..2300ba37 100644
--- a/polybar-scripts/player-mpris-simple/player-mpris-simple.sh
+++ b/polybar-scripts/player-mpris-simple/player-mpris-simple.sh
@@ -2,10 +2,19 @@
 
 player_status=$(playerctl status 2> /dev/null)
 
-if [ "$player_status" = "Playing" ]; then
-    echo "#1 $(playerctl metadata artist) - $(playerctl metadata title)"
-elif [ "$player_status" = "Paused" ]; then
-    echo "#2 $(playerctl metadata artist) - $(playerctl metadata title)"
+#this function slice the artist length to 15 characters and 20 characters for the title preventing it from taking all the polybar space
+print_metadata () {
+    player_title=$(playerctl metadata title 2> /dev/null)
+    player_artist=$(playerctl metadata artist 2> /dev/null)
+    if [ "$player_status" = "Playing" ]; then
+        echo "#1 ${player_artist::15} - ${player_title::20}"
+    elif [ "$player_status" = "Paused" ]; then
+        echo "#2 ${player_artist::15} - ${player_title::20}"
+    fi
+}
+
+if [ "$player_status" = "" ]; then
+    echo "#3 No player found"
 else
-    echo "#3"
+    print_metadata
 fi