Just want to share a modified Lua script I retouched for having fun with our mpv notifications (displayed by default xfce4-notificacions in mabox) and have them all coming up on screen whenever you use the media player (ytfzf, pyradio, stremio, or just mpv itself). There are no extra packages needed so far (all them are installed by default in mabox).
You might need to check your config file in mpv (~/home/.config/mpv/mpv.conf) so as to add an extra line saying [notify-lua] and save the changes. Also in ~/home/.config/mpv/scripts you need create a folder named as scripts if you don’t have it and place this notify.lua script in there. Then restart and play pyradio or mpv player to play any streaming or video file to check it up. Good luck.
notify.lua script is below in 177 lines to copy and add as a new file in scripts(created) folder in mpv
-- notify.lua -- Desktop notifications for mpv.
-- Just put this file into your ~/.config/mpv/scripts folder and mpv will find it.
--
-- Copyright (c) 2014 Roland Hieber
-- (Also some minor edits from Arindam Das)
--
-- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-- of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
-- in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
-- to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
-- copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
-- furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
--
-- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
-- all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
--
-- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
-- IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
-- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
-- AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
-- LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-- OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
-- SOFTWARE.
-- I tweaked a bit this 2014 notify-mpv.lua script to use it in Maboxlinux to
-- integrate with Pyradio app to play streaming & metadata, added some bucle stop
-- to interrupt libnotify send continuous notifications. Nick0bre Chile 2022.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- helper functions
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function print_debug(s)
print("DEBUG: " .. s) -- comment out for no debug info
return true
end
-- url-escape a string, per RFC 2396, Section 2
function string.urlescape(str)
local s, c = string.gsub(str, "([^A-Za-z0-9_.!~*'()/-])",
function(c)
return ("%%%02x"):format(c:byte())
end)
return s;
end
-- escape string for html
function string.htmlescape(str)
local str = string.gsub(str, "<", "<")
str = string.gsub(str, ">", ">")
str = string.gsub(str, "&", "&")
str = string.gsub(str, "\"", """)
str = string.gsub(str, "'", "'")
return str
end
-- escape string for shell inclusion
function string.shellescape(str)
return "'"..string.gsub(str, "'", "'\"'\"'").."'"
end
-- converts string to a valid filename on most (modern) filesystems
function string.safe_filename(str)
local s, _ = string.gsub(str, "([^A-Za-z0-9_.-])",
function(c)
return ("%02x"):format(c:byte())
end)
return s;
end
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- here we go.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- scale an image file
-- @return boolean of success
function scaled_image(src, dst)
local convert_cmd = ("convert -scale x64 -- %s %s"):format(
string.shellescape(src), string.shellescape(dst))
-- print_debug("executing " .. convert_cmd)
if os.execute(convert_cmd) then
return true
end
return false
end
-- extract image from audio file
function extracted_image_from_audiofile (audiofile, imagedst)
local ffmpeg_cmd = ("ffmpeg -loglevel -8 -vsync 2 -i %s %s > /dev/null"):format(
string.shellescape(audiofile), string.shellescape(imagedst)
)
-- print_debug("executing " .. ffmpeg_cmd)
if os.execute(ffmpeg_cmd) then
return true
end
return false
end
function get_value(data, keys)
for _,v in pairs(keys) do
if data[v] and string.len(data[v]) > 0 then
return data[v]
end
end
return ""
end
COVER_ART_PATH = "/tmp/covert_art.jpg"
ICON_PATH = "/tmp/icon.jpg"
function notify_current_track()
os.remove(COVER_ART_PATH)
os.remove(ICON_PATH)
local metadata = mp.get_property_native("metadata")
-- track doesn't contain metadata
if not metadata then
return
end
-- we try to fetch metadata values using all possible keys
local artist = get_value(metadata, {"artist", "ARTIST"})
local album = get_value(metadata, {"album", "ALBUM"})
local title = get_value(metadata, {"title", "TITLE", "icy-title"})
-- print_debug("notify_current_track(): -> extracted metadata:")
-- print_debug("artist: " .. artist)
-- print_debug("album: " .. album)
-- print_debug("title: " .. title)
-- absolute filename of currently playing audio file
local abs_filename = os.getenv("PWD") .. "/" .. mp.get_property_native("path")
-- print_debug(abs_filename)
params = ""
-- extract cover art: set it as icon in notification params
if extracted_image_from_audiofile(abs_filename, COVER_ART_PATH) then
if scaled_image(COVER_ART_PATH, ICON_PATH) then
params = "-i " .. ICON_PATH
end
end
-- form notification summary
summary_str ="Now playing:"
if (string.len(artist) > 0) then
summary_str = string.htmlescape(artist)
end
summary = string.shellescape(summary_str)
body_str = mp.get_property_native("filename")
if (string.len(title) > 0) then
if (string.len(album) > 0) then
body_str = ("%s<br /><i>%s</i>"):format(
string.htmlescape(title), string.htmlescape(album))
else
body_str = string.htmlescape(title)
end
end
body = string.shellescape(body_str)
local command = ("notify-send -a mpv -t 5000 %s -- %s %s"):format(params, summary, body)
-- print_debug("command: " .. command)
os.execute(command)
end
function notify_metadata_updated(name, data)
notify_current_track()
end
-- insert main() here
mp.register_event("file-loaded", notify_current_track)
mp.observe_property("metadata", nil, notify_metadata_updated)
If you have any questions let me know. You can meet me/us in mabox Telegram channel ( we communicate mostly in English/Spanish) at some time during the day.
