Does anyone have now_playing.sh working?

[x-candy6]

If so could you paste the configs that make it work?
I'm running the defaults
it doesn't work with spotify nor rhythmbox

my .tmux-powerlinerc

 now_playing.sh {
	# Music player to use. Can be any of {audacious, banshee, cmus, itunes, lastfm, mocp, mpd, mpd_simple, pithos, playerctl, rdio, rhythmbox, spotify, spotify_wine, file}.
	export TMUX_POWERLINE_SEG_NOW_PLAYING_MUSIC_PLAYER="rhythmbox"
	# File to be read in case the song is being read from a file
	export TMUX_POWERLINE_SEG_NOW_PLAYING_FILE_NAME=""
	# Maximum output length.
	export TMUX_POWERLINE_SEG_NOW_PLAYING_MAX_LEN="40"
	# How to handle too long strings. Can be {trim, roll}.
	export TMUX_POWERLINE_SEG_NOW_PLAYING_TRIM_METHOD="trim"
	# Charcters per second to roll if rolling trim method is used.
	export TMUX_POWERLINE_SEG_NOW_PLAYING_ROLL_SPEED="2" `
	
	# Hostname for MPD server in the format "[password@]host"
	export TMUX_POWERLINE_SEG_NOW_PLAYING_MPD_HOST="localhost"
	# Port the MPD server is running on.
	export TMUX_POWERLINE_SEG_NOW_PLAYING_MPD_PORT="6600"
	# Song display format for mpd_simple. See mpc(1) for delimiters.
	export TMUX_POWERLINE_SEG_NOW_PLAYING_MPD_SIMPLE_FORMAT="%artist% - %title%"
	# Song display format for playerctl. see "Format Strings" in playerctl(1).
	export TMUX_POWERLINE_SEG_NOW_PLAYING_PLAYERCTL_FORMAT="{{ artist }} - {{ title }}"
	# Song display format for rhythmbox. see "FORMATS" in rhythmbox-client(1).
	export TMUX_POWERLINE_SEG_NOW_PLAYING_RHYTHMBOX_FORMAT="%aa - %tt"
	
	# Username for Last.fm if that music player is used.
	export TMUX_POWERLINE_SEG_NOW_PLAYING_LASTFM_USERNAME=""
	# How often in seconds to update the data from last.fm.
	export TMUX_POWERLINE_SEG_NOW_PLAYING_LASTFM_UPDATE_PERIOD="30"
	# Fancy char to display before now playing track
	export TMUX_POWERLINE_SEG_NOW_PLAYING_NOTE_CHAR="♫"
 }

my default.sh

if [ -z $TMUX_POWERLINE_RIGHT_STATUS_SEGMENTS ]; then
	TMUX_POWERLINE_RIGHT_STATUS_SEGMENTS=(

		"now_playing 111 232" \
		#"earthquake 3 0" \
		#"pwd 89 211" \
		#"vcs_branch 29 88" \
		#"macos_notification_count 29 255" \
		#"mailcount 9 255" \
    #"lan_ip 24 255 ${TMUX_POWERLINE_SEPARATOR_RIGHT_THIN}" \
		#"wan_ip 24 255" \
		#"cpu 111 232" \
		#"load 237 167" \
		#"tmux_mem_cpu_load 234 136" \
		#"battery 137 127" \
	        #"rainbarf 0 ${TMUX_POWERLINE_DEFAULT_FOREGROUND_COLOR}" \
		#"xkb_layout 125 117" \
		
		
		
		#"utc_time 235 136 ${TMUX_POWERLINE_SEPARATOR_LEFT_THIN}" \
	)
fi

[erikw]

Hey, as you mention Rhytmbox I would assume you are on a Linux-based desktop?

I'm right now on a macOS desktop and Spotify works with the now playing segment. It's hard to say what the issue might be on your particular system. Thus I would advice you to follow the Debugging instructions at

https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline#debugging

By injecting set -x in the segment, you can get exact output on what is happening and which part of the script that is not working.

For example, if you're using the "spotify" segment, then adjust the np_spotify() function in now_playing.sh like this:

__np_spotify() {
	set -x
        exec 2>/tmp/tmux-powerline.log
  
        [....]
 
        set +x
}

and then $ tail -f /tmp/tmux-powerline.log

[x-candy6]

Thanks for the debugging instructions, this helped with debugging the weather.sh i'm currently figuring out.
Last night I solved the now_playing issue with a very janky solution.
I installed spotifycli for linux and piped the output of spotifycli --song && spotifycli --artist into a separate segment using time.sh as a starting template. It works great!