mpd-Coverview-kitty

Fetches coverart for current playing mpd song and displays it in kitty terminal.

Written in python.

Features

using idle-until-player-state-change feature, enables low cpu usage.
fetches album art first from folder.jpeg, cover.png, etc, if none is found it uses mutagen to look for embedded cover art, if all else fails it displays a fallback image
no fetching album art from online databases, as ive never experienced a reliable implementation of that.

install all dependencies --listed below-- using pip or your package manager of choice
download Coverview folder to a location of your choosing
edit /path/to/mpd/music/library in coverview_x.x.py
edit /location/of/coverview/.aartminip.png and /location/of/coverview/.placeholder.png to reflect your install location

launch with python in kitty

kitty python /path/to/coverview_0.9.1.py

you can either create your own .desktop file for launching with rofi, or use a keybinding for launching it

this project started with hacking off the album art display portion of Miniplayer, with significant modifications.

mpd

kitty

python 3

python-mutagen

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