MPD Plugin for Noctalia

This is a plugin for the Noctalia shell for controlling Music Player Daemon (MPD). It provides a bar widget displaying the current MPD playback state and song name, with a hover panel showing full track details and album art. Mouse buttons can be used to control playback (e.g. play/pause/next/prev) or even toggle ashuffle.

Features

• Shows playback status icon (playing / paused / stopped) and current song name in the bar
• Hover panel with artist, title, album, and embedded cover art (via mpc readpicture)
• Configurable left, right, and middle click actions
• Supports ashuffle

I wrote the plugin for my own purposes (I want to simply click a button to start shuffling my entire library and then just do basic controls like next/prev/pause). Anything more than that (such as selecting specific songs to play) is not provided, I use a separate client for that (specifically myMPD).

Requirements

• Noctalia shell
• MPD running locally
• mpc available in $PATH
• Optionally: ashuffle managed as a systemd user service (ashuffle.service)

Installation

Copy this directory into your Noctalia plugins folder and enable the plugin from Noctalia's settings.

Configuration

Setting	Default	Description
Left click	Next track	Action triggered by left-clicking the widget
Right click	Play / Pause	Action triggered by right-clicking the widget
Middle click	Toggle ashuffle	Action triggered by middle-clicking the widget
Stop playback when disabling shuffle	Yes	When toggling ashuffle off, also send mpc stop

Available actions: Next track, Previous track, Play / Pause, Stop, Toggle ashuffle, Do nothing.

License

MIT — see LICENSE for details.