⚠ 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. :-)
Adds desktop notifications to the mpv media player, which show metadata like artist, album name and track name when the track changes.
- 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.
- mpv (>= 0.3.6)
- Lua (>= 5.2)
- lua-socket
- lua-posix
notify-sendfrom libnotifyconvertfrom ImageMagick
On recent Debians, do a sudo apt-get install lua-socket lua-posix libnotify-bin imagemagick
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>
mpv-notify was written by Roland Hieber , you can use it under the terms of the MIT license.