Polybar Mpris Control

🎶This polybar module displays mpris-enabled media information on your device. Besides, it use zscroll to display information in a small place.

🤗 Many ideas and codes come from PrayagS/polybar-spotify, thanks a lot!

Features and Previews

• Show Informations
  
• Adjust volume by scrolling on left icon, progress bar or song title(only works in very few players)
• player switch(Just click the left icon to open)
  
• Can change menu icon if the player is chromium/ firefox/ spotify/ vlc
  • using chromium
    
  • using firefox
    
  • using vlc
    
  • using spotify
    

Dependencies

• zscroll: To scroll the fetched text
• rofi: To provide player switch
• icomoon font family: To provides icon fonts on polybar. You can replace the icon in the code to remove the dependency.

Config

• move /mpris to ~/.config/polybar/scripts/
• add modules in config.ini

  modules-left = mrpis-control mrpis-prev mrpis-play-pause mrpis-next mrpis-process mrpis-status

• add modules config

  [module/mrpis-control]
  
  type = custom/script
  exec = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/mpris/mpris_control.sh --icon
  format = <label>
  click-left = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/mpris/mpris_control.sh --select
  scroll-up = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/mpris/mpris_control.sh --vc 0.05+
  scroll-down = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/mpris/mpris_control.sh --vc 0.05-
  
  [module/mrpis-status]
  
  type = custom/script
  tail = true
  interval = 1
  ; prefix symbol is shown before the text
  format = <label>
  exec = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/mpris/scroll.sh
  scroll-up = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/mpris/mpris_control.sh --vc 0.05+
  scroll-down = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/mpris/mpris_control.sh --vc 0.05-
  
  [module/mrpis-prev]
  type = custom/script
  exec = echo ""
  format = <label>
  click-left = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/mpris/mpris_control.sh --previous
  
  [module/mrpis-play-pause]
  type = custom/script
  exec = echo "懶"
  format = <label>
  click-left = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/mpris/mpris_control.sh --playpause
  
  [module/mrpis-next]
  type = custom/script
  exec = echo ""
  format = <label>
  click-left = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/mpris/mpris_control.sh --next
  
  [module/mrpis-process]
  type = custom/script
  tail = true
  interval = 1
  ; prefix symbol is shown before the text
  format = <label>
  exec = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/mpris/mpris_control.sh --process
  scroll-up = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/mpris/mpris_control.sh --vc 0.05+
  scroll-down = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/mpris/mpris_control.sh --vc 0.05-

Customize

• You can replace the icons on polybar, two good website to choose icons are: Nerd Fonts, FontAwsome. Always be aware that you are using an available font family
• You can add lyrics display just copy modify the mrpis-status module. This requires the player to write the lyrics to metadata.someattribute (although this may not be language compliant)
• For YesPlayMusic user, I recommend to use the polybar-yesplaymusic-lyrics to show lyrics on polybar