Music presence

Show them what music you listen to, even when not using Spotify.
music_presence was made for kew, but works with any players supporting MPRIS.

It works by subscribing to playerctl for MPRIS events and uploading the cover art of the playing media to tmpfiles.org if it is stored locally, because Discords RPC requires image assets to be provided as web urls. Unless this option is disabled, music_presence will also resize the cover to be smaller before uploading.

Building from source

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/Faervan/music_presence.git
cd music_presence

# Build using cargo (install rustup.rs if you don't have it installed already)
cargo build --release

# Install the binary
sudo cp target/release/music_presence /usr/local/bin

# Optional: you may remove this directory after you copied the binary to /usr/local/bin
cd ..
rm -r music_presence

Uninstall

Applies if you followed the steps from Building from source:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/music_presence

Usage

After installing, just add music_presence to your autostart.

CLI options:

$ ./target/release/music_presence -h

Discord presence for ravachol/kew, or any MPRIS compatible music player.

Note that activity buttons might not be visible to the user who sets the activity, but they are to everyone else.
This is a Discord issue, see https://github.com/Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi/issues/429#issuecomment-2504798129.

Usage: music_presence [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -v, --verbose                 
  -r, --retries <RETRIES>       how often to retry if we get an ipc error [default: 3]
  -p, --player <PLAYER>         name of the music player to follow (see `playerctl`) [default: kew]
  -i, --app-id <APP_ID>         Discord application ID [default: 1210361074247802940]
      --hide-repository-button  hide the button of the music_presence github repo
      --skip-resizing           do not resize local track covers before uploading them
      --size <SIZE>             {width}x{height} to which track covers get resized before uploading [default: 150x150]
  -h, --help                    Print help (see more with '--help')
  -V, --version                 Print version

Note that when changing the player from kew to smth else (e.g. spotify), music_presence will still show up as "Listening to kew.m3u" because the Discord application with ID 1210361074247802940 has the name "kew.m3u". Head over to Discords developer portal to create your own Discord application and pass its ID to --app-id.

Credits

music_presence is powered by all the awesome crates listed in Cargo.toml. Not listed there are playerctl and tmpfiles.org, on which music_presence is built upon as well.