flustix / music-overlay

A little program that communicates with the WebNowPlaying extension to show the current song in a browser.

Flux' Music Overlay

A little program that communicates with the WebNowPlaying extension to show the current song in a browser.

Installation

Installing the browser extension

1. Follow the installation instructions for the WebNowPlaying browser extension.
2. Open the extension settings and make sure the Rainmeter adapter is enabled.

The program itself

1. Download the latest release from here.
2. Extract the zip file.
3. Run the WebNowPlaying.exe file.

This starts in the background, if it seems to do nothing, that's normal.

You can close it again using task manager.

You can now open the overlay by opening http://localhost:8975/ in your browser or add it as a browser source in OBS.

Configuration

You can change the settings of the web-view by adding query parameters to the url.

Parameter	Description	Values	Default
album	Display the album name.	0, 1	1
progress	Display the progress bar.	0, 1	1
progress-size	The size of the progress bar.	normal, full	normal
bg	Display the background.	0, 1	1
v	The vertical position of the overlay.	top, bottom	bottom
h	The horizontal position of the overlay.	left, right	right
box-bg	Shows a transparent background behind the text.	0, 1	0

For example: http://localhost:8975/?progress=0&bg=0 will disable the progress bar and the background.