How to obtain the current playing song using a command?

[hykilpikonna]

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A musikcube user opened a feature request https://github.com/hykilpikonna/hyfetch/issues/364 to display musikcube's current playing song on neofetch. How can I obtain this information using one command?

[237dmitry]

How can I obtain this information using one command?

I think the best solution for now would be parsing of playerctl metadata. Something like:

playerctl metadata --format "Now playing: {{ artist }} - {{ album }} - {{ title }}"

https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl

[Else00]

How can i get it on macOS? becase musikcube is not registering the playback on MPNowPlayingInfoCenter, so I cannot get the song info or control it using nowplaying-cli