Hack:mpd-notify.py

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• Description: Simple, badly coded python script that displays libnotify notifications when the song or status changes. Requires python-mpd and libnotify/notify-send. Use of notify-osd is recommended. Album art is taken from ~/.covers so you may need to run sonata to get them. Freedesktop icon themes are used. I will update it as I improve on it.
• Maintainer(s): Durand D'souza < durand1 AT gmail DOT com >

import mpd,os,time

home = os.path.expanduser('~')
success = False
while success == False:
    try:
        client = mpd.MPDClient()
        client.connect("localhost", 6600) 
        success = True
    except:
        time.sleep(5)
        success = False


try:
    last_song = client.currentsong()['file']
    last_status = client.status()['state']
    artist = client.currentsong()['artist']
    album = client.currentsong()['album']
    title = client.currentsong()['title']
    if os.path.exists('%s/.covers/%s-%s.jpg'%(home,artist,album)):
        os.popen('notify-send -i "%s/.covers/%s-%s.jpg" "%s" "%s"'%(home,artist,album,artist,title))
    else:
        os.popen('notify-send -i sonata "%s" "%s"'%(artist,title))
except:
    pass
    last_song = ""
    last_status = ""
while True:
    try:
        currentsong = client.currentsong()['file']
        status = client.status()['state']
    except:
        currentsong = ""
        status = last_status
    if last_status <> status:
        try:
            if status == "play":
                comment = "media-playback-start" + " MPD Playing"
            elif status == "pause":
                comment = "media-playback-pause" + " MPD Paused"
            else:
                comment = "media-playback-stop" + " MPD Stopped"
            os.popen('notify-send -u critical -t 10 -i %s'%comment)
            if status == "play":
                if os.path.exists('%s/.covers/%s-%s.jpg'%(home,artist,album)):
                    os.popen('notify-send -i "%s/.covers/%s-%s.jpg" "%s" "%s"'%(home,artist,album,artist,title))
                else:
                    os.popen('notify-send -i sonata "%s" "%s"'%(artist,title))

            last_status = client.status()['state']
        except:
            pass
    if last_song <> currentsong:
        try:
            artist = client.currentsong()['artist']
            album = client.currentsong()['album']
            title = client.currentsong()['title']
            if os.path.exists('%s/.covers/%s-%s.jpg'%(home,artist,album)):
                os.popen('notify-send -i "%s/.covers/%s-%s.jpg" "%s" "%s"'%(home,artist,album,artist,title))
            else:
                os.popen('notify-send -i sonata "%s" "%s"'%(artist,title))
            last_song = client.currentsong()['file']
        except:
            pass
    
    time.sleep(1)