bum
is a daemon that downloads album art for songs playing in mpd
/mopidy
and displays them in a little window. bum
doesn't loop on a timer, instead it waits for mpd
/mopidy
to send a player
event. When it receives a player
event it wakes up and downloads album art for the current playing track. This makes bum
lightweight and makes it idle at ~0%
CPU usage.
bum
uses musicbrainz to source and download cover art, if an album is missing it's cover art you can easily create an account and fill in the data yourself. bum
outputs a release-id
which you can use to find the exact entry on musicbrainz.
Note: bum
is meant to be used with files that don't have embedded album art (mopidy-spotify
).
python 3.6+
python-mpv
python-mpd2
musicbrainzngs
pip3 install --user bum
usage: bum [-h] [--size "px"] [--cache_dir "/path/to/dir"] [--version] bum - Download and display album art for mpd tracks. optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --size "px" what size to display the album art in. --cache_dir "/path/to/dir"Where to store the downloaded cover art. --version Print "bum" version. --port Use a custom mpd port.
Donations will allow me to spend more time working on bum
.
If you like bum
and want to give back in some way you can donate here:
https://patreon.com/dyla