Module i3status_rs::blocks::music

The current song title and artist

Also provides buttons for play/pause, previous and next.

Supports all music players that implement the MediaPlayer2 Interface. This includes:

• Spotify
• VLC
• mpd (via mpDris2)

and many others.

By default the block tracks all players available on the MPRIS bus. Right clicking on the block will cycle it to the next player. You can pin the widget to a given player via the “player” setting.

Configuration

Key	Values	Default
format	A string to customise the output of this block. See below for available placeholders.	" $icon {$combo.str(max_w:25,rot_interval:0.5) $play |}"
format_alt	If set, block will switch between format and format_alt on every click	None
player	Name(s) of the music player(s) MPRIS interface. This can be either a music player name or an array of music player names. Run busctl –user list | grep “org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.” | cut -d’ ’ -f1 and the name is the part after “org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.”.	None
interface_name_exclude	A list of regex patterns for player MPRIS interface names to ignore.	["playerctld"]
separator	String to insert between artist and title.	" - "
seek_step_secs	Positive number of seconds to seek forward/backward when scrolling on the bar. Does not need to be an integer.	1
seek_forward_step_secs	Positive number of seconds to seek forward when scrolling on the bar. Does not need to be an integer.	seek_step_secs
seek_backward_step_secs	Positive number of seconds to seek backward when scrolling on the bar. Does not need to be an integer.	seek_step_secs
volume_step	The percent volume level is increased/decreased for the selected audio device when scrolling. Capped automatically at 50.	5

Note: All placeholders except icon can be absent. See the examples below to learn how to handle this.

Placeholder	Value	Type
icon	A static icon	Icon
artist	Current artist	Text
title	Current title	Text
url	Current song url	Text
combo	Resolves to “$artist[sep]$title", "$artist", "$title", or "$url" depending on what information is available. [sep] is set by separator option.	Text
player	Name of the current player (taken from the last part of its MPRIS bus name)	Text
avail	Total number of players available to switch between	Number
cur	The current player index of the available players	Number
play	Play/Pause button	Clickable icon
next	Next button	Clickable icon
prev	Previous button	Clickable icon
volume_icon	Icon based on volume. Missing if unsupported.	Icon
volume	Current volume. Missing if muted or unsupported.	Number

Action	Default button
play_pause	Left on $play
next	Left on $next
prev	Left on $prev
next_player	Right
seek_forward	Wheel Up
seek_backward	Wheel Down
volume_up	-
volume_down	-
toggle_format	Left

Examples

Show the currently playing song on Spotify only, with play & next buttons and limit the width to 20 characters:

[[block]]
block = "music"
format = " $icon {$combo.str(max_w:20) $play $next |}"
player = "spotify"

Same thing for any compatible player, takes the first active on the bus, but ignores “mpd” or anything with “kdeconnect” in the name:

[[block]]
block = "music"
format = " $icon {$combo.str(max_w:20) $play $next |}"
interface_name_exclude = [".*kdeconnect.*", "mpd"]

Same as above, but displays with rotating text

[[block]]
block = "music"
format = " $icon {$combo.str(max_w:20,rot_interval:0.5) $play $next |}"
interface_name_exclude = [".*kdeconnect.*", "mpd"]

Click anywhere to play/pause, middle click to toggle format:

[[block]]
block = "music"
format = " format 1 "
format_alt = " format 2 "
[[block.click]]
button = "left"
action = "play_pause"
[[block.click]]
button = "middle"
widget = "."
action = "toggle_format"

Scroll to change the player volume, use the forward and back buttons to seek:

[[block]]
block = "music"
format = " $icon $volume_icon $combo $play $next| "
seek_step_secs = 10
[[block.click]]
button = "up"
action = "volume_up"
[[block.click]]
button = "down"
action = "volume_down"
[[block.click]]
button = "forward"
action = "seek_forward"
[[block.click]]
button = "back"
action = "seek_backward"

Icons Used

• music
• music_next
• music_play
• music_prev
• volume_muted
• volume (as a progression)

Structs

• Config

Enums

• PlayerName

Functions

• run