kunst is a daemon that extracts the album art from the songs playing in mpd and displays them in the a little window. It doesn't loop on a timer, instead it waits for mpd to send a player event. When it receives a player event, it wakes up and extracts the album art of the current playing track. This makes kunstreally lightweight and makes it idle at ~0% CPU usage. If there no embbeded album art, it will try to fetch the album art from the internet.
Dependencies
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Installation
Install using make
# Clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/sdushantha/kunst
# Change your current directory to kunst
$ cd kunst
# Install it
$ sudo make installInstall it locally
# Download the kunst source code, save as kunst, make it executeable
# and then move it to ~/.local/bin
$ curl -L git.io/raw-kunst > kunst && chmod +x kunst && mv kunst ~/.local/binUsage
$ kunst --help
usage: kunst [-h] [--size px] [--music_dir path/to/dir] [--silent] [--version]
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Download and display album art or display embedded album art
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--size what size to display the album art in
--position the position where the album art should be displayed
--music_dir the music directory which MPD plays from
--silent dont show the output
--version show the version of kunst you are usingConfigure
You can configure kunst through environment variables.
# The size of the album art to be displayed
export KUNST_SIZE="250x250"
# The position where the album art should be displayed
export KUNST_POSITION="+0+0"
# Where your music is located
export KUNST_MUSIC_DIR="/home/username/Music/"
License
MIT License
Copyright © 2019 Siddharth Dushantha
