✨ Download and display album art or display embedded album art ✨
kunst is a daemon that extracts the album art from the songs playing in mpd and displays them in the a little window. It doesn't loop on a timer, instead it waits for mpd to send a player event. When it receives a player event, it wakes up and extracts the album art of the current playing track. This makes kunstreally lightweight and makes it idle at ~0% CPU usage. If there no embbeded album art, it will try to fetch the album art from the internet.
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# Clone the repo $ git clone https://github.com/sdushantha/kunst # Change your current directory to kunst $ cd kunst # Install it $ sudo make install# Download the kunst source code, save as kunst, make it executeable # and then move it to ~/.local/bin $ curl -L git.io/raw-kunst > kunst && chmod +x kunst && mv kunst ~/.local/bin$ kunst --help usage: kunst [-h] [--size px] [--music_dir path/to/dir] [--silent] [--version] ┬┌─┬ ┬┌┐┌┌─┐┌┬┐ ├┴┐│ ││││└─┐ │ ┴ ┴└─┘┘└┘└─┘ ┴ Download and display album art or display embedded album art optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --size what size to display the album art in --position the position where the album art should be displayed --music_dir the music directory which MPD plays from --silent dont show the output --version show the version of kunst you are usingYou can configure kunst through environment variables.
# The size of the album art to be displayed export KUNST_SIZE="250x250" # The position where the album art should be displayed export KUNST_POSITION="+0+0" # Where your music is located export KUNST_MUSIC_DIR="/home/username/Music/" 
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