ek234/cmus-notify

Configurable cmus status desktop notifications via notify-send

Cmus-notify

A cmus status notification program made for easy configuration and portability.

Requirements:

• cmus
• perl
• notify-send
• ffmpeg (optional)

Installation:

• git clone https://github.com/dcx86r/cmus-notify
• install HTML::Entities module from CPAN
• [sudo] sh installer.sh install

...and to uninstall:

• [sudo] sh installer.sh uninstall

If using a previous version, uninstall old version before installing new one

Configuration:

Configuration is accomplished via file, which is installed to $HOME/.config/cmus/notify.cfg on first run. The file is prepopulated with some default values that can be modified or added to.

The default config values:

i:artist title duration

All possible config values:

file artist album duration title tracknumber date nomarkup covers

Album art is not shown by default, adding the value covers to the config file enables that option.

Markup can be used by prepending config values with b, i, or u -- meaning bold, italicized, underlined.
All can be used together, e.g. ibu:artist ui:title. Markup tags do not apply to nomarkup or covers.

The default is to assume the notification application parses markup. If it does not, then nomarkup should be supplied in the config file.

Activate in cmus:

:set status_display_program=/usr/local/bin/cmus-notify

Notes

In general: errors are logged to $HOME/.local/share/cmus-notify/error.log

Album art support:

• cmus-notify uses ffmpeg to extract art from media files
• art is cached on disk at $HOME/.local/share/cmus-notify/covers
• the cache has no size limits imposed
• a placeholder image is shown if a file has no embedded art
• placeholder is also shown if art has not yet been cached (e.g. on first play of a file), this is because ffmpeg takes anywhere between 1-5+ seconds to perform the extraction, so whatever is available is shown instead of waiting an indeterminate amount of time