cmrpc - A Discord RPC for C* Music Player

with some more features:

  • Discord RPC (Albumart as icons!!)

  • notify-send when song changes

  • to-dos:

    • jp2a visualizer

About albumart

  • For notifier:

    • Extract from mp3 with ffmpeg
    • temporarily stored in path/of/cmrpc/covers(auto create if not exists).
    • removed when cmrpc exits.

  • For Discord Rich Presence Icon:

    • Discord RPC can now display images via url
    • Upload the above extracted covers to Imgur

Requirements

  • tmux
  • ffmpeg
  • notify-send
  • python 3.10 (match-case used) with below packages
    pip install pyimgur
    pip install pypresence
  • Font Awesome enabled in your dunstrc.
    font = Noto Sans CJK TC Medium, Font Awesome 6 Free 12

Usage

  • run in background with cmus
        /path/to/cmrpc 1>/dev/null & cmus
  • [updated] better usage:
        tmux new -d /path/of/cmrpc; cmus
    • Since cmrpc does some clean-ups after cmus closed, if the terminal session exits right after cmus does, then the clean-ups will be terminated.