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polybar-spotify

This polybar module shows details regarding the currently playing song on Spotify. The unique feature of this module is that the text displayed is constantly scrolled to save space on the bar. This is something that is not found in other spotify modules I came across. Also, this module uses playerctl to do all the work and hence, no >100 line scripts which do all the work themselves. Only one line to fetch the required metadata in the format that you like and another line to scroll the fetched text using zscroll.

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Setup

# The name of polybar bar which houses the main spotify module and the control modules.
PARENT_BAR="now-playing"

# Set the source audio player here.
# Players supporting the MPRIS spec are supported.
# Examples: spotify, vlc, chrome, mpv and others.
# Use `playerctld` to detect the latest player.
# See more here: https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl/#selecting-players-to-control
PLAYER="playerctld"

# Format of the information displayed
# Eg. {{ artist }} - {{ album }} - {{ title }}
# See more attributes here: https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl/#printing-properties-and-metadata
FORMAT="{{ title }} - {{ artist }}"
[module/spotify]
type = custom/script
tail = true
interval = 1
; prefix symbol is shown before the text
format-prefix = "<prefix-symbol>"
format = <label>
exec = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/scroll_spotify_status.sh

[module/spotify-prev]
type = custom/script
exec = echo "<previous-song-symbol>"
format = <label>
click-left = playerctl previous -p spotify

[module/spotify-play-pause]
type = custom/ipc
hook-0 = echo "<playing-symbol>"
hook-1 = echo "<pause-symbol>"
initial = 1
click-left = playerctl play-pause -p spotify

[module/spotify-next]
type = custom/script
exec = echo "next-song-symbol"
format = <label>
click-left = playerctl next -p spotify

NOTE: The above given play-pause module requires IPC support enabled for its parent bar. That can be done by adding enable-ipc = true in your bar config.

Support for KDE panel

To have this bar show up in your KDE panel, see PrayagS/polybar-spotify#21.

Customization

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