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⚠ Note: This software is currently unmaintained since I don't have the resources or interest right now to maintain it. If you want to work on it, I could give you access to the repository, or just fork it. :-)

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
• lua-posix
• notify-send from libnotify
• convert from ImageMagick

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

Installation

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

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

License

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