[SOLVED] N/A instead of Title on waybar mpd module

Akamiblade129_7 · 2025-06-14 15:30:55

I've searched it, all I found is to update system and reboot and it didn't help.

mpc status showing:

> mpc status
Bon Jovi - It's My Life.mp3
[paused]  #1/1   2:35/3:45 (68%)
volume: 50%   repeat: on    random: off   single: off   consume: off

waybar module showing:

  N/A - (02:35/03:45) 

mpd config:

# Location for database
db_file            "~/.local/share/mpd/database"

# Logs to system journal
log_file           "syslog"

# The music directory is by default the XDG directory, uncomment to amend and choose a different directory
music_directory    "~/Music"

# Uncomment to enable the functionalities
playlist_directory "~/.local/share/mpd/playlists"
#pid_file           "~/.local/share/mpd/pid"
state_file         "~/.local/share/mpd/state"
sticker_file       "~/.local/share/mpd/sticker.sql"

# Uncomment to refresh the database whenever files in the music_directory are changed
auto_update "yes"

port "6600"
restore_paused "yes"

waybar module config:

"mpd": {
        "format": "{stateIcon} {title} - ({elapsedTime:%M:%S}/{totalTime:%M:%S}) {consumeIcon}{randomIcon}{repeatIcon}{singleIcon} ",
        "format-disconnected": "~",
        "format-stopped": "~",
        "interval": 1,
        "on-click": "mpc toggle",
        "consume-icons": {
            "on": " "
        },
        "random-icons": {
            "on": " "
        },
        "repeat-icons": {
            "on": " "
        },
        "single-icons": {
            "on": "1 "
        },
        "state-icons": {
            "paused": "",
            "playing": ""
        },
        "tooltip-format": "MPD (connected)",
        "tooltip-format-disconnected": "MPD (disconnected)"
    },

Info that might be useful:

Kernel : 6.15.2-arch1-1
WM : Hyprland 0.49.0
Waybar : waybar 0.12.0-1
MPD : mpd 0.24.4-1

Last edited by Akamiblade129_7 (2025-06-15 00:58:29)

seth · 2025-06-14 15:53:07

Bon Jovi - It's My Life.mp3Bon Jovi - It's My Life.mp3

Wild guess: the files doesn't have any id3 tags?
https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/3631

Akamiblade129_7 · 2025-06-14 17:13:35

seth wrote:

Bon Jovi - It's My Life.mp3Bon Jovi - It's My Life.mp3
Wild guess: the files doesn't have any id3 tags?
https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/3631

Yeah, that's probably the issue since I download music videos from yt and convert it to mp3.
So I have to edit file's metadata? Do you know any cli utilities to do it?

Edit:
Yep. That worked. I used id3v2 tool to edit file metadata.

$ idf3v2 -t "Title" path/to/file

Still seems weird to me, that there's no way to display filename

Edit: I've got new problem now, it's not displaying cyrillic characters properly.. But I guess I gotta make new post about it

Last edited by Akamiblade129_7 (2025-06-14 17:38:24)

seth · 2025-06-14 19:27:10

Still seems weird to me, that there's no way to display filename

Did you check the linked bug?

it's not displaying cyrillic characters properly..

https://stackoverflow.com/a/9861839

yt-dlp --preset-alias=mp3 --add-metadata 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhg9bYNLvOg'

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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#1 2025-06-14 15:30:55

[SOLVED] N/A instead of Title on waybar mpd module

#2 2025-06-14 15:53:07

Re: [SOLVED] N/A instead of Title on waybar mpd module

#3 2025-06-14 17:13:35

Re: [SOLVED] N/A instead of Title on waybar mpd module

#4 2025-06-14 19:27:10

Re: [SOLVED] N/A instead of Title on waybar mpd module

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