mpd info screen

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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

Known Bugs ❗❗

Currently there are no known bugs. Please report any bugs you find to the issue tracker.

Unicode Support

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). Note that your system must have fontconfig and freetype installed (most Linux systems should have these installed already).

cargo build --release --features unicode_support

or through crates.io:

cargo install --features unicode_support mpd_info_screen

Usage

Displays info on currently playing music from an MPD daemon

Usage: mpd_info_screen [OPTIONS] <HOST> [PORT]

Arguments:
  <HOST>
  [PORT]  [default: 6600]

Options:
  -p <PASSWORD>

      --disable-show-title
          disable title display
      --disable-show-artist
          disable artist display
      --disable-show-album
          disable album display
      --disable-show-filename
          disable filename display
      --pprompt
          input password via prompt
      --pfile <PASSWORD_FILE>
          read password from file
      --no-scale-fill
          don't scale-fill the album art to the window
  -l, --log-level <LOG_LEVEL>
          [default: error] [possible values: error, warning, debug, verbose]
  -t, --text-bg-opacity <TEXT_BG_OPACITY>
          sets the opacity of the text background (0-255) [default: 190]
  -h, --help
          Print help
  -V, --version
          Print version

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.

Uses dependency bindgen which is licenced under the BSD-3-Clause.