Conky-Audacious-Cover

A simple conky for show cover art of your music in audacious media player on Linux distributions.

Requirements

have installed:

• conky
• ffmpeg
• imagemagick

Features

• Only show if audacious is open.
• It has three styles of displaying audio covers:
  • Minimal cover
  • Vinyl cover
  • Cd cover
• Shows album art, title, artist and album.

To change the style of conky change the following argument in .conky-audacious-cover

# conky_vinyl cover = 1
# conky_minimal cover = 2
# after audacious-info.sh -> 1 or 2

${if_running audacious}${execpi 2 ~/.conky/Conky-Audacious-Cover/audacious-info.sh 1}${endif}

How to Install

Typing on terminal:

• 1

   mkdir ~/.conky

• 2

  cd ~/.conky

• 3

  git clone https://github.com/hall9zeha/Conky-Audacious-Cover.git

• 4

  cd Conky-Audacious-Cover    

• 5

  sudo chmod +x audacious-info.sh

  sudo chmod +x start-audacious-conky.sh

inside the conky file start-audacious-conky.sh you can modify the startup delay of conky audacious

sleep 15 && conky -c  ~/.conky/Conky-Audacious-Cover/.conky-audacious-cover

• 6 .- Finally add the script file start-audacious-conky.sh to autostart on your linux distribution so that it always starts when you turn on the computer.

To launch the conky audacious cover and test its operation, run in the terminal

conky -c ~/.conky/Conky-Audacious-Cover/.conky-audacious-cover

if you have copied all the files following the instructions, otherwise you can configure it at your convenience.

Screenshots

• Vinyl style

• Minimal style

• Compact Disc style