Run mpris_player_control -h to show basic script usage.Īn alternative to the above is to manually use D-Bus, which should be available by default as it is a dependency of systemd.įor example, the following commands can be used to control Spotify: It supports the Play, Pause, PlayPause and Stop actions and sink volume control (mute/unmute/up/down) for Spotify. The mpris_player_control is a shell script which integrates dbus-send and pactl to control MPRIS clients. Tip: The playerctld-systemd-unit AUR package can be installed instead of manually creating the service.Īdditionally, playerctld has the ability to change an 'active' player, which can be useful when you have multiple simultaneous media streams: You should then do a daemon-reload before enabling the service with the -user flag.

~/.config/systemd/user/rvice ĭescription=Keep track of media player activity In order to start playerctld when you log in, you may create the following systemd/User service: You can spun it into the background with: For better automation playerctl comes with a daemon that keeps track of media player activity and directs commands to the one with most recent activity. To select a player manually, use the -player option, e.g.

Playerctl will send the command to the first player it finds. The most common commands are play-pause, next and previous: The playerctl utility provides a command line tool to send commands to MPRIS clients. Tip: Create a key binding for common control commands and multimedia keys such as XF86AudioPlay, XF86AudioStop, XF86AudioPrev and XF86AudioNext.

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