mpv-notify

Adds desktop notifications to the mpv media player, which show metadata like artist, album name and track name when the track changes.

Features

shows artist, title and album name (as far as detected by mpv)
tries to find load cover art in the same folder, or loads it from coverartarchive.org and caches it locally.

Requirements

mpv (>= 0.3.6)
Lua (>= 5.2)
lua-socket or install from luarocks
luaposix or install from luarocks
notify-send from libnotify
convert from ImageMagick

On recent Debians, do a sudo apt-get install lua-socket libnotify-bin imagemagick

Installation

Just drop notify.lua into the folder ~/.mpv/scripts (create it when neccessary), and mpv will find it. Optionally, you can add it to mpv's command line:

mpv --script=/path/to/notify.lua <files and options>

License

mpv-notify was written by Roland Hieber , you can use it under the terms of the MIT license.