ironbar-fork/docs/modules/Music.md

Displays currently playing song from your music player. This module supports both MPRIS players and MPD servers. Clicking on the widget opens a popout displaying info about the current song, album art and playback controls.

in MPRIS mode, the widget will listen to all players and automatically detect/display the active one.

Configuration

Type: music

	Type	Default	Description
player_type	mpris or mpd	mpris	Whether to connect to MPRIS players or an MPD server.
format	string	{icon} {title} / {artist}	Format string for the widget. More info below.
truncate or truncate.mode	start or middle or end	null	The location of the ellipses and where to truncate text from. Leave null to avoid truncating. Use the long-hand version if specifying a length.
truncate.length	integer	null	The maximum number of characters before truncating. Leave blank to let GTK automatically handle.
icons.play	string/image	ï<EFBFBD>‹	Icon to show when playing.
icons.pause	string/image	ï<EFBFBD>Œ	Icon to show when paused.
icons.prev	string/image	玲	Icon to show on previous button.
icons.next	string/image	怜	Icon to show on next button.
icons.volume	string/image	墳	Icon to show under popup volume slider.
icons.track	string/image		Icon to show next to track title.
icons.album	string/image		Icon to show next to album name.
icons.artist	string/image	ï´<EFBFBD>	Icon to show next to artist name.
host	string/image	localhost:6600	[MPD Only] TCP or Unix socket for the MPD server.
music_dir	string/image	$HOME/Music	[MPD Only] Path to MPD server's music directory on disc. Required for album art.

See here for information on images.

JSON

{
  "start": [
    {
      "type": "music",
      "player_type": "mpd",
      "format": "{icon} {title} / {artist}",
      "truncate": "end",
      "icons": {
        "play": "ï<>‹",
        "pause": "ï<>Œ"
      },
      "music_dir": "/home/jake/Music"
    }
  ]
}

TOML

[[start]]
type = "music"
player_type = "mpd"
format = "{icon} {title} / {artist}"
music_dir = "/home/jake/Music"
truncate = "end"

[[start.icons]]
play = "ï<>‹"
pause = "ï<>Œ"

YAML

start:
  - type: "music"
    player_type: "mpd"
    format: "{icon} {title} / {artist}"
    truncate: "end"
    icons:
      play: "ï<>‹"
      pause: "ï<>Œ"
    music_dir: "/home/jake/Music"

Corn

{
  start = [
    {
      type = "music"
      player_type = "mpd"
      format = "{icon} {title} / {artist}"
      truncate = "end"
      icons.play = "ï<>‹"
      icons.pause = "ï<>Œ"
      music_dir = "/home/jake/Music"
    }
  ]
}

Formatting Tokens

The following tokens can be used in the format config option, and will be replaced with values from the currently playing track:

Token	Description
{title}	Title
{album}	Album name
{artist}	Artist name
{date}	Release date
{track}	Track number
{disc}	Disc number
{genre}	Genre
{duration}	Duration in mm:ss
{elapsed}	Time elapsed in mm:ss

Styling

Selector	Description
#music	Tray widget button
#popup-music	Popup box
#popup-music #album-art	Album art image inside popup box
#popup-music #title	Track title container inside popup box
#popup-music #title .icon	Track title icon label inside popup box
#popup-music #title .label	Track title label inside popup box
#popup-music #album	Track album container inside popup box
#popup-music #album .icon	Track album icon label inside popup box
#popup-music #album .label	Track album label inside popup box
#popup-music #artist	Track artist container inside popup box
#popup-music #artist .icon	Track artist icon label inside popup box
#popup-music #artist .label	Track artist label inside popup box
#popup-music #controls	Controls container inside popup box
#popup-music #controls #btn-prev	Previous button inside popup box
#popup-music #controls #btn-play	Play button inside popup box
#popup-music #controls #btn-pause	Pause button inside popup box
#popup-music #controls #btn-next	Next button inside popup box
#popup-music #volume	Volume container inside popup box
#popup-music #volume #slider	Volume slider popup box
#popup-music #volume .icon	Volume icon label inside popup box