Waybar and MPD

[perletero2]

Hello everyone, for a while now i have tried to make the MPD module work on waybar, and after testing a lot of different things i have managed to make it work so i decided to share this here in case someone else is pulling his hair trying to figure it out.

The solution is really simple and consist of only 2 steps :

1. Install mpc (available in extra)

2. Export the MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT to your environment variables. For that i created 02-mpd.sh in ~/.config/uwsm/env.d/ and added the lines :

MPD_HOST="YouMPDAdress"
MPD_PORT="YourMPDPort"

export MPD_HOST MPD_PORT

After a reboot everything was working

I know this will seem obvious to a lot of people but i didn't find any real explanation and for those of us who are not used to mpd or didn't use mpc already (i used rmpc) this can become quite a headache...

PS : Please tell me if i did a mistake in setting this up (like env variables)
PS2: Seeing the comments in the mpd.jsonc i was not the only one struggling with this 😄

[kRHYME7]

iirc I only use ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf and it kinda works after running the daemon. But as of the moment I don't see any usecase of mpd for myself. Unless I want to make my raspi as a music player.

Thank you for the tips BTW!