Adds desktop notifications to the mpv media player, which show metadata like artist, album name and track name when the track changes.

• shows artist, title and album name (as far as detected by mpv)
• extracts cover art using ffmpeg
• writes icon, artist, album, title to temporary files (useful for OBS)

• mpv (>= 0.3.6)
• Lua (>= 5.2)
• ffmpeg from https://www.ffmpeg.org/
• ffmpegthumbnailer from ffmpegthumbnailer (optional only for video thumbnails)
• notify-send from libnotify
• convert from ImageMagick

Install mpv, lua, ffmpeg, ffmpegthumbnailer(optionl), libnotify and ImageMagick packages

Just drop notify.lua into the folder ~/.config/scripts/lua (create it when neccessary), and mpv will find it. Optionally, you can add it to mpv's command line:

mpv --lua=/path/to/notify.lua <files and options>

mpv-notify was originally written by Roland Hieber . I have simply refactored it according to my needs. You may use it under the terms of the MIT license.