✨ Download and display album art or display embedded album art ✨
```kunst``` is a deamon 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 ```kunst```really 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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## Dependencies
- ```sxiv``` or ```imv```
- ```bash```
- ```ffmpeg```
- ```mpc```
- ```jq```
- ```mpd```
## Installation
### Install using ```make```
```bash
# Clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/sdushantha/kunst
# Change your current directory to kunst
$ cd kunst
# Install it
$ sudo make install
```
### Install it locally
```bash
# 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
```
## Usage
```bash
$ kunst --help
usage: kunst [-h] [--size px] [--music_dir path/to/dir] [--silent] [--version]
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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 using
```
## Configure
You can configure `kunst` through environment variables.
```bash
# 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/"
```
## License
MIT License
Copyright © 2019 Siddharth Dushantha