MPD Status

MPD Status is a quick Python script to display some details about the track currently playing in ​MPD. It is intended for use in ​wmii's status bar.

If you want a more featureful status bar, check out ​szs3rd, from which I shamelessly copied and hacked the mpc.py module.

Features

• Displays currently playing/paused song (that's a given really) with time.
• If metadata isn't provided, falls back to the basename of the file.

Requirements

• ​Python 2.4.
• ​mpc.

Download

Checkout mpd-status/trunk/ from the ​Subversion repository:

svn co http://svn.bleah.co.uk/repos/misc/mpd-status/trunk

or, since it is just the one file, grab it via HTTP from ​http://svn.bleah.co.uk/repos/misc/mpd-status/trunk/mpd-status.py

Installation and Usage

(Instructions are based around the setup for wmii 2 in ​Debian, please add generic instructions where they differ)

1. Place mpd-status.py somewhere, like /usr/local/bin/ or ~/.wmii/scripts/.
2. Copy /etc/wmii/status.sh to ~/.wmii/status.sh and edit it, or edit /etc/wmii/status.sh directly.
3. Edit the following line to include "`python2.4 /path/to/mpc.py`" (see patch attached to this page for an example):

   text="`date` `uptime | sed -e 's/.*://' -e 's/,//g'`"
   

4. Restart wmii: /etc/wmii/rc restart

You should see some extra text on your wmibar, either "--Not playing--" or your currently playing/paused track.