_{✨ 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 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.

Dependencies

• sxiv
• imagemagick
• bash
• ffmpeg
• mpc

Installation

Install using make

sudo make install

Install it locally

Add kunst to a directory which is in your $PATH

Install from the AUR

AUR (maintained by networkpanic)

Usage

If kunst ever gets super slow or stops grabbing album art and needs to restart, that means it has Kunstipated

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$ kunst --help
usage: kunst [-h] [--size px] [--music_dir path/to/dir] [--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
   --music_dir           the music directory which MPD plays from
   --version             show the version of kunst you are using

License

MIT License

Copyright © 2019 Siddharth Dushantha