Conky-Audacious-Cover

A simple conky for show cover art of your music in audacious media player

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

• 1 .- Go to your home directory.
• 2 .- Create the .conky directory if you don't have it yet.
• 3 .- Open a terminal inside .conky directory
• 4 .- Inside the already created .conky directory clone the repository typing the following in the terminal

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

• 5 .- A folder called Conky-Audacious-Conky will be downloaded, inside the folder Give execution permissions to audacious-info.sh and start-audacious-conky.sh typing in your terminal:

sudo chmod +x audacious-info.sh

sudo chmod +x start-audacious-conky.sh

inside the conky file 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 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