Print currently playing MPD’s song metadata and status as JSON

Installation

Packages are available:

• in the AUR
• in Hackage:

  cabal install mpd-current-json
      

or compile it from source:

git clone https://codeberg.org/useless-utils/mpd-current-json
cd mpd-current-json

to install the executable to ./dist, in the current directory:

cabal install --install-method=copy --overwrite-policy=always --installdir=dist

or to install to ${CABAL_DIR}/bin remove the --installdir=dist argument. CABAL_DIR defaults to ~/.local/share/cabal.

Usage

• Get values

  mpd-current-json | jaq .tags.album
  mpd-current-json | jaq .status.elapsed_percent
      

• Provide host and port with

  mpd-current-json -h 'localhost' -p 4321
      

• Provide password

  mpd-current-json --password 'abc123'
      

  note that the password will be sent as plain text.

Run mpd-current-json --help for all the available options.