rohieb/mpv-notify

now-playing-desktop notifications for mpv ⚠ 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. :-)

⚠ 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. :-)

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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 , you can use it under the terms of the MIT license.

mpv-notify's Issues

Add to readme luaposix requirement

Possible LUA errors

Long story short: I don't know if this is my end or yours, and for that I apologize now.

The error, when loaded via the lua=~/.mpv/lua/notify.lua is as follows:

Warning: option --lua was replaced with --script and might be removed in the future.
[notify] 
[notify] stack traceback:
[notify]    /home/jared/.mpv/lua/notify.lua:70: in main chunk
[notify]    [C]: at 0x00475400
[notify]    [C]: at 0x004769a0
[notify] Lua error: /home/jared/.mpv/lua/notify.lua:70: module 'socket.http' not found:
[notify]    no field package.preload['socket.http']
[notify]    no file './socket/http.lua'
[notify]    no file '/usr/share/luajit-2.0.4/socket/http.lua'
[notify]    no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/socket/http.lua'
[notify]    no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/socket/http/init.lua'
[notify]    no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/socket/http.lua'
[notify]    no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/socket/http/init.lua'
[notify]    no file './socket/http.so'
[notify]    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/socket/http.so'
[notify]    no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/socket/http.so'
[notify]    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
[notify]    no file './socket.so'
[notify]    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/socket.so'
[notify]    no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/socket.so'
[notify]    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'

An image of the error:

mpv --version returns:

mpv git-8b47e5d (C) 2000-2016 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
 built on Tue Jul 12 15:40:06 EDT 2016
ffmpeg library versions:
   libavutil       55.17.103
   libavcodec      57.24.102
   libavformat     57.25.100
   libswscale      4.0.100
   libavfilter     6.31.100
   libswresample   2.0.101
ffmpeg version: 3.0.2

I'm running on Arch Linux, and that's really the most that I can give ya there.

Any more info will be added as requested! :)

Error when failing to retrieve cover: attempt to condatenate 'd' (a nil value)

Log

local scope on mbid variable

I see this is no longer being supported.

I found your script and have been messing around with it on an arch install which has hooks into mpv playback via ranger.
I was finding that although the "d" variable on the musicbrainz look up was coming back with valid XML that it was not correctly getting passed back to the coverart look up.
I finally tracked it down to the local scope on mbid with the string.match

local mbid = string.match(d or "",
"<%srelease%s+[^>]id%s=%s['"]%s*([0-9a-fA-F-]+)%s*['"]")

Removing the local scope fixed this :
mbid = string.match(d or "",
"<%srelease%s+[^>]id%s=%s['"]%s*([0-9a-fA-F-]+)%s*['"]")

Based on other issues, I forked it over on gitlab with credit given :)
https://gitlab.com/geolaw/mpv-notify

Doesn't work on Windows

I've dropped the notify.lua script in %APPDATA%\mpv\lua\ and %APPDATA%\mpv\scripts\ but it doesn't do anything for me. Any tips on how it's supposed to work?

Change installation to .mpv/scripts instead of .mpv/lua (deprecated)

fetch cover art from local files

Cover art is currently taken from the internet every time. Although it is cached locally, there may already be a cover image embedded in the file, or there may be one (like cover.jpg) in the same folder as the played track. Such cover art should be used instead if it is present.