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Implement album cover widget
I love album covers because they look beautiful and make it easy to differentiate songs. I have yet to set up mpd, and I want to know if pms supports showing album cover images.
Hi @crocket, Short answer: no. PMS is a console application. If you run your terminal with a big enough resolution, it should be feasible to render album art using jp2a or a similar application. Not sure how beautiful it would be, though.
As far as I know, ncurses applications can draw 24-bit images directly on graphical terminal emulators. Ncmpcpp seems capable of this.
I found
- https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/4j562z/make_ncmpcpp_display_album_art/
- https://gist.github.com/vlevit/4588882/
ranger, a console file manager, has image preview as well.
OK. Weird. Yeah, works on my urxvt. Though the areas of the terminal the cover art doesn't cover lose my regular transparent black background colour, which is a shame.
Is this just a urxvt thing, or how many terminals support this?
For me, works in urxvt, but doesn't in terminator, gnome-terminal, xterm, st.
Honestly, though, this seems like the kind of thing best deferred to external scripts, since availability obviously depends heavily on the environment. If/when #69 is implemented there could be a hotkey to run a script such as this. Or you could already run something like this (disclaimer: that's my fork of a thing) to show album in a graphical popup whenever the song changes.
urxvt rendering method is supported only by urxvt.
w3mimgdisplay supports urxvt and partially supports st and other terminals.
w3mimgdisplay leads to flickers in st. Thus, I have to refresh the terminal often.
A promising rendering method is SIXEL which st could support in the near future.