moc_notify

Notifier for 'Music On Console' using libnotify.

Platform

• GNU/Linux

Dependencies

• Libraries : libnotify
• Build: gcc, make, pkg-config
• External:
  • Our onsongchange.sh script.
  • Some notifier running: notify-osd, xfce4-notifyd, dunst, etc.

Build

make
-- or --
make debug

Install

make install (default PREFIX=/usr)
-- or --
PREFIX=/usr/local make install

Note: If you don't install change this line of the onsongchange.sh since the script needs moc_notify to know the name of the FIFO. To get this name, manually run moc_notify -f

Run

moc_notify [option] &

 -v  Show the version.
 -f  Show the name of the fifo file, internaly.
 -h  Show help.

Note: run in background (&)

How to use with MOC

1 - Copy the script onsongchange.sh to your MOC directory:

cp scripts/onsongchange.sh ~/.moc

chmod +x ~/.moc/onsongchange.sh

Note: If you installed with make install you will find the script in $PREFIX/share/moc_notify

2 - Edit your MOC configuration file: ~/.moc/config

# Enable the "OnSongChange" event.
 OnSongChange="/home/YOU/.moc/onsongchange.sh %a %t %r %f"

3 - Restart MOC.

Please see onsongchange.sh script to see how to get the cover art.

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Known issues - moc

• The script file does not have the attribute of execution (see man chmod)

user.err: mocp: Error when running OnSongChange command ~/.moc/onsongchange.sh : permission denied

• Wrong shell path or name, see #!/usr/bin/bas

user.err: mocp: Error when running OnSongChange command ~/.moc/onsongchange.sh : The file or directory does not exist

• Could not connect: Connection refused

dbus-launch moc_notify

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Extra information

FIFO format

printf "title @ body @ icon" > $FIFO

printf "title @ body \r newline @ icon" > $FIFO

"I do not want that (@) delimiter in my script. How I can change it?"

MOC_NOTIFY_DELIM="?" /usr/bin/moc_notify &

How to test (without using MOC)

Make sure moc_notify is running, then:

echo "Artist@Title@audio-x-generic" > $(moc_notify -f)

and test the script:

~/.moc/onsongchange.sh "Artist" "Title" "Album"

inotify

moc_notify see if the FIFO file is deleted or moved, for this it uses inotify from version 2.x.

Syslog

• Journalctl - systemd

journalctl -f -t moc_notify

• Socklog - runit

sudo tail -f /var/log/socklog/everything/current

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