gompris-current is a program that can get current song of media player that support Mpris DBus protocol. It's output the status to $XDG_CACHE_HOME/mpris-current or $HOME/.cache/mpris-current file. You can use the file as a text source in OBS or other application.

You can use the following command to install gompris-current:

go get -u github.com/yursan9/gompris-current

It will download the sources code and install the program into the $GOPATH/bin directory. Then you can add $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH variabel.

Execute the following command to run the program:

gompris-current [media player name]

You need to input the name of your media player as the command line argument. Look at the table to see what name you need to input as argument:

Example usage:

gompris-current rhythmbox
2019/05/15 13:12:57 Subscibe to org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged signal
2019/05/15 13:12:57 Start monitoring signal for org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.rhythmbox
2019/05/15 13:12:57 Press Ctrl+C to quit...

The currently played song is listed in $HOME/.cache/mpris-current. You can use the file with OBS by following these steps:

1. Click + in Sources window.
2. Click Text on the popup.
3. Enter the new source's name then click OK.
4. Tick the options "Read from file".
5. Then enter the name of text file by clicking the Browse button.
6. Finally, click OK to finish.

You can configure the outputted text by using template. Create the file in $HOME/.config/mpris-current/ directory and the file as template. If there is no template file in $HOME/.config/mpris-current, the default template is:

{{.Status}}: {{.Title}} - {{.Artist}}

The syntax follows the golang template's syntax.

Copyright 2019 Yurizal Susanto

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