mpdzen
This is just me flexing my zsh muscles a little, creating some things marginally useful in the process.
./mpc_parse
Simple parser for mpc status. Not useful on its own, this can be sourced from other scripts to get that data.
./mpdzen
This script fetches data using mpc_parse and displays it in a nice dialogue using dzen2. Note this requires a development version of dzen2, the one from debian package in particular will not suffice! The dialogue will also include a cover art image, if there is one in xpm format in ./covers/$ARTIST/$ALBUM.xpm or ~/.cache/covers/$ARTIST/$ALBUM.xmp
Have a screenshot:
./mpdzen_loop
Very small utility that listens for mpd events using mpc idleloop, and when a player event happens, calls mpdzen. Basically, this will show the mpdzen notification everytime a new song is played.
./cover_fetcher ARTIST ALBUM
This script will attempt to download a cover for $ALBUM by $ARTIST using curl, and convert it to a 64x64 xpm image using ImageMagick's convert. For my nicely sorted collection of data in its ARTIST/ALBUM/TITLES hierarchy, this worked very well (zsh, obviously):
p=/path/to/mp3/
for i in ${~p}/*/*(/); do
i=${i#$p};
./cover_fetcher ${i%/*} ${i#*/};
echo;
done
./dzenlines
This script wraps dzen2, and will adjust the -y parameter for subsequent
calls depending on the -p, -y and -h parameters, so that they don't
overlap. For example, if you call three times dzenlines -y 50 -h 30 -p 3, it
will move the -y further down by 34 pixels, which is the -h parameter
plus a bit of padding. Once the timeout given by -p is reached, the offset
is reset to zero.
Be wary of non key-value arguments for dzen (ie, -m and -u), they may confuse the script. Just put them on the tail end of the arguments and it should be fine.
The script keeps track of state for each pair of -x,-y parameters, and will move up or down the screen depending on the sign of -y.
patches
This is a quilt patches dir that can be applied to dzen2, to allow escaping of closing parantheses for ^i() syntax. This is necessary if album names contain any ), which will blow it up otherwise.