cmezak / mpd-album-art

Python module to query current MPD song, and find an album art match from local filesystem or LastFM.

MPD Album Art

Python module to query current MPD song, and find an album art match from local filesystem or LastFM.

Install

$ pip install mpd-album-art

Example Usage

Play some jams

Start up your MPD session as normal, e.g.

$ mpd

Take note of which port it's running on (normally localhost:6600).

With the commandline script (the easy way)

$ mpd_album_art.py -n localhost -p 6600 -m ~/music/ -a ~/.covers -l current

With the Python module (the manual way)

Hook up to the MPD server

import mpd_album_art, mpd
# Open an MPD client
mpd_client = MPDClient()
# Connect to MPD session
mpd_client.connect("localhost", 6600)
# ...

Find what's making those groovy vibes

# ...
song = mpd_client.currentsong()
# ...

Grab some art

Artwork is saved to save_dir library_dir should be where your music files are (this is used in Grabber.get_local_art)

# ...
grabber = mpd_album_art.Grabber(
    save_dir="/home/jamie/.conky/scripts/album_art",
    library_dir="/home/jamie/Music/Library"
    )
grabber.get_art(song)

Now, if the album isn't too obscurely titled, you should have its artwork in save_dir saved as something like "Artist_Name_Album_Name_h4sh.png". And a symlink should exist in there saved as "current" pointing to it.

You can also check your local filesystem for artwork in the music directory:

grabber.get_local_art(song)

This will create a symlink called "current" in save_dir pointing to the largest image file in the directory

Issuing these commands when there's no music pumping will remove the symlink.