Ability to output Song title, artist, album etc of now playing to polybar

[TrontheTechie]

Ability to output Song title, artist, album etc of now playing to polybar

[zachomedia]

@TrontheTechie I'm not 100% clear on what would be needed for that. Do you have any more information about this type of setup?

[TrontheTechie]

Thank you for your time;

The way that I have thought it could work is by having a setting that if toggled would allow the web client to write a file to disk in the home directory somewhere or tmp folder named applemusicnowplaying that contains the currently playing song information (as specified in settings if desired for more complexity).

Someone could then create a small module in their polybar configuration that queries if the file is there, and if so to output it's contents onto the status bar similar to this kind of setup

An example of the module:

[module/applemusic]
type = custom/script
exec = test -e /tmp/applemusicnowplaying && cat /tmp/applemusicnowplaying
interval = 1