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mpd info screen
A Rust program that displays info about the currently running MPD server.
The window shows albumart (may be embedded in the audio file, or is a "cover.jpg" in the same directory as the song file), a "time-remaining" counter, and the filename currently being played
By default, unicode characters will not display properly. Build the project with
the unicode_support
feature enabled to enable fetching fonts from the local
filesystem to display unicode characters properly (if the system is missing a
font, then it will still be displayed incorrectly).
cargo build --release --features unicode_support
Usage
mpd_info_screen 0.3.0
USAGE:
mpd_info_screen [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <host> [port]
FLAGS:
--disable-show-artist disable artist display
--disable-show-filename disable filename display
--disable-show-title disable title display
--no-scale-fill don't scale-fill the album art to the window
--pprompt input password via prompt
-h, --help Prints help information
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-l, --log-level <log-level> [default: Error] [possible values: Error, Warning, Debug, Verbose]
-p <password>
ARGS:
<host>
<port> [default: 6600]
Note that presing the Escape key when the window is focused closes the program.
Also note that pressing the H key while displaying text will hide the text.
Issues / TODO
- UTF-8 Non-ascii font support (Use the
unicode_support
feature to enable; only tested in linux) - Support for album art not embedded but in the same directory
MPD Version
To get album art from the image embedded with the audio file, the "readpicture" protocol command is queried from MPD, which was added in version 0.22 of MPD. It is uncertain when the "albumart" protocol command was added (this command fetches album art that resides in cover.jpg/cover.png in the same directory as the audio file). This means that older versions of MPD may not return album art to display.
Legal stuff
Uses dependency ggez which is licensed under the MIT license.
Uses dependency image which is licensed under MIT license.
Uses dependency structopt which is licensed under Apache-2.0 or MIT licenses.
Unicode Support Dependencies
Uses dependency fontconfig which is licensed with this license.
Uses dependency freetype which is licensed with this license.