waybar-mpris/README.md

waybar-mpris

a custom waybar component for displaying info from MPRIS2 players. It automatically focuses on currently playing music players, and can easily be customized.

Install

go get github.com/hrfee/waybar-mpris

or just grab the binary from here.

Usage

When running, the program will pipe out json in waybar's format. Make a custom component in your configuration and set return-type to json, and exec to the path to the program.

Usage of ./waybar-mpris:
      --order string       Element order. (default "SYMBOL:ARTIST:ALBUM:TITLE")
      --pause string       Pause symbol/text to use. (default "")
      --play string        Play symbol/text to use. (default "▶")
      --separator string   Separator string to use between artist, album, and title. (default " - ")

• Modify the order of components with --order. SYMBOL is the play/paused icon or text, other options are self explanatory.
• --play/--pause specify the symbols or text to display when music is paused/playing respectively.
• --separator specifies a string to separate the artist, album and title text.