CMUS-D

C* Music Player media interface daemon

This package provides a remote graphical frontend for the C* Music Player using the MPRIS D-Bus Interface

How it works

cmus has a remote tool cmus-remote(1) that can control and query cmus through a socket. cmusd takes advantage of this by parsing the status of cmus on request and sending playback controls to it. This data is updated twice every second for precision.

Features

• Album art: This is generated and rendered after being extracted by ffmpeg
• Playback (Next, Previous, Pause, Play, PlayPause, Stop, Seek)
• Hybrid Connection: The daemon can either spawn a cmus process within itself or connect to an already active one
• Auto logging

Installing

The project is written in Native JavaScript NodeJS. Download and install Node.js, NPM.

Via NPM

npm install cmusd -g

Manual Installatiion

git clone https://gitlab.com/miraclx/cmusd.git
cd cmusd
npm run setup

Usage

# Launch the daemon
cmusd
 
# Clean all logfiles, launch
cmusd -x
 
# Remove the lockfile, launch
# (incase previous process didn't close correctly)
cmusd -q
 
# Write log to specific file
cmusd <filename>
 
# Write log to file in folder
cmusd <folder>

• Lock file: <os-tmp-dir>/cmus-dir/.lock
• Album Art cache folder: <os-tmp-dir>/cmus-dir/
• Default log folder: <os-tmp-dir>/cmus-dir/logs/

Screenshots

Simple Command

Basic Run, spawns cmus within (if not already running)

Media player instance for the auto-spawned CMUS-D listener

Connect to an actively running cmus process

Already running CMUS

CMUS-D Connected and logging

Media player instance for the connected CMUS-D listener

Development

Building

Use in adherance to the license, feel free to send some pull requests

git clone https://github.com/miraclx/cmusd.git
cd cmusd
npm install
# hack on code
npm run build

License

Apache 2.0 © Miraculous Owonubi (@miraclx) <omiraculous@gmail.com>