Conky VLC Plugin by Suicide

VLC Script for Conky feel free to use and Edit it

Donations are welcome xD

This Script works only with files you have on your local HDD and NOT with Webstreams!!!

To make this script work you need to have netcat.openbsd installed and you must have following options enabled within vlc.

at Settings / All / Interface / Main Interface tick Remote control Interface and HTTP Remote control Interface
at Settings / All / Interface / Main Interface / RC tick fake tty and at Unix socket command input type /tmp/vlc.sock

Script is called within Conky with this parameters:

${color #FF4D00}$alignc VLC${color} ${hr 2}
${font Lucida Grande:size=7}
Artist: ${alignr}${execpi 10 /pathto/vlc2conky.sh --artist}
Song: ${alignr}${execpi 10 /pathto/vlc2conky.sh --title}
Album: ${alignr}${execpi 10 /pathto/vlc2conky.sh --album}
Duration: ${alignr}${execpi 10 /pathto/vlc2conky.sh --duration}
Genre: ${alignr}${execpi 10 /pathto/vlc2conky.sh --genre}
${font}

Replace the pathto with the path where the vlc2conky.sh is located.

!!!PLEASE BE AWARE I AM A BASH NOOB AND THE CODE IS NOT PERFECT BUT IT WORKS FOR NOW!!!!

Last changelog:

14 years ago

Edited the Way it worked by including the Way the script of crimson from the official VLC worked.

Changelog:

v1.0
Raw Script by Dgellow Jons

v1.1
Rewrote Script by Dgellow Jons to be able to use files with Spaces within the name or path.

v2.0 Rewrote the code with help from the script by crimson of the official VLC Forum to be able to show stats even if there is more then one Title in the Playlist.

Future Plans:
(maybe) Make it available for Webstreams to