mpd-status is an interactive block for
i3blocks.
It shows a brief description of the current song (e.g. "{Artist} - {Song}
[paused | {vol}%]") and does various actions when clicked.
By default, left click plays and pauses, right click stops, the scroll wheel
changes the volume, middle click shuffles all albums, and, if your mouse has
them, the back button returns to the previous song and the forward button skips
to the next album (this can be changed to go to the next song by editing
I3blocks/ButtonMap.hs and changing buttonToOp = albumShuffleButtons to
buttonToOp = defaultButtons).
- Automatically updates when the song or volume change, whether the change is
triggered by a click action, an external command like
mpc, or just the current song ending. Most existing blocks arempc-based scripts which can't easily do this - MPD actions can be customized using
libmpd-haskell's DSL- E.g.
clear >> add "" >> random True >> play Nothingreplaces the current queue with your library and shuffles it - This also allows complex actions like shuffling by album and skipping the beginning of the next album
- E.g.
- Written in Haskell (ymmv)
- It's a multi-file binary, not a script. Technically you could interpret it
with
runhaskell, but that's noticeably slow in my experience
- Customizable status format
- Support for MPRIS players
- Support for
mpv(Maybe. It has an IPC server, but it's not especially suitable for this)
At some point I'll start distributing binaries,
but for now you'll need cabal-install.
$ git clone https://github.com/pvsr/mpd-status
$ cd mpd-status
$ cabal new-update
$ cabal new-install mpd-statusThen add ~/.cabal/bin/ to your PATH.