moskas / mpd-notify-rs

MPD notification daemon

About application

It uses notify-rust so it should work with any notification daemon like dunst or KDE/GNOME/XFCE, Windows notifications etc. For album covers it looks inside a directory that mpd returns as song file directory and it checks whether cover.png or cover.jpg exists in the directory and uses it as an icon.

Example screenshot with dunst:

Structure of the notification is:
Summary: Now playing:
Contents:

• Artist
• Title
• Album
  Icon: Album cover

Dependencies

[dependencies]
notify-rust = "4"
mpd = "0.0.12"
toml = "0.7.2"
serde = "1.0.152"
dirs = "4.0.0"

Roadmap

• Improve regex to find covers in subfolders (ex. Album has Disc 1 and Disc 2 directories in which covers are located.)
• More configuration options:
  • Text formatting
  • Timeout setting
• Support for running as a systemd daemon

Configuration

By default application will look for your $HOME/.config directory (or $HOME/AppData/Roaming/ for Windows). It doesn't create it and config file by default. Default fallback config will be added in future commits. Default config:

music_dir = "/home/moskas/Music/"
ip = "127.0.0.1"
port = "6600"
use_cover = true

The exact same config file is also located in doc directory.