![]() The first thing we’ll need to do this is MarshallOfSound’s excellent unofficial desktop player for Google Music. Trying to replicate the effect with Google Music was a bit of a different story. With my previous music setup, mpd, this was quite easy – conky actually has a whole lot of mpd stuff built in. Here’s a tutorial describing how to set it up. Conky’s configuration files are much more powerful: not only do you get far more built-in variables, but you can literally place the output of arbitrary terminal commands on your i3bar. If you’re using i3wm with the default i3status powering the output on your i3bar, I really recommend swapping it out for conky. This includes being able to play and pause with one of the extra buttons on my mouse and seeing what song’s playing in the conky-powered i3bar at the top of my screen. I’m increasingly using Google Music streaming over my local music collection these days, but I’d like to get the same general experience as I’d have with a local music player. ![]() ![]() So here’s a trivial-seeming task that required a bit more digging that I anticipated. Showing the current Google Music song in conky ![]()
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