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balky

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Display MPD audio track information in imon

Hi,
Newbie here, newbie to Arch, first post on this forum and not so newbie to Linux in general.

I use MPD for playing audio and I would like to know how to make the front imon panel (Silverstone LC-20M case) to display the information of the currently playing track.
I did install LCDProc and able to display text, but don't know how to pull information from MPD.

The mpdldc on pip doesn't appear to work.

Anyone has ideas?

Thank you.

Slithery

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Re: Display MPD audio track information in imon

man mpc

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balky

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Re: Display MPD audio track information in imon

I don't use mpc...

MPD is running on a headless Arch install, and controlled from the tablet by Soundirok...

Thanks for the suggestion anyway...

Slithery

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Re: Display MPD audio track information in imon

You don't have use mpc to control your music, you can just use it to query mpd for information about the currently playing song.

I don't use mpc directly but it is used in a couple of my conky scripts to display music information.

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balky

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Re: Display MPD audio track information in imon

Are you able to share the script?... please... :-)

balky

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Re: Display MPD audio track information in imon

You don't have use mpc to control your music, you can just use it to query mpd for information about the currently playing song.

I don't use mpc directly but it is used in a couple of my conky scripts to display music information.

As explained in my first post, I'm just a newbie looking for help, I will appreciate if you could show me steps on what I need to do.
Thanks.

jasonwryan

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Re: Display MPD audio track information in imon

man mpc

The man page is pretty explanatory. Read it and post if here there is something you don't understand.

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balky

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Re: Display MPD audio track information in imon

Thanks...
I read the man page yesterday, and didn't see how I could make mpc output information to the imon display... the mpc setup seems quite straight forward, the missing link for me is how to get the information from mpc into the imon display.

Thanks once more.

jasonwryan

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Re: Display MPD audio track information in imon

I have no idea what an imon display is, but if it takes text input, then you just capture the output of the mpc command, or pipe it, or whatever.

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qinohe

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Re: Display MPD audio track information in imon

If there is anything to display MPD will pass the RDP RDS trough to your clients no matter what the 'source' is,

At least that is, if you have enabled 'tags' in MPD.conf, and that Silverstone thingy can show it of course.

Last edited by qinohe (2018-09-11 12:58:19)