mpv-notify

Adds desktop notifications to the mpv media player on Mac, with metadata like artist, album name and track name when the track changes.

Features

• Shows artist, title and album name (as far as detected by mpv)
• Extracts cover art using ffmpeg

Requirements

• mpv (>= 0.35)
• Lua (>= 5.2)
• ffmpeg
• convert from ImageMagick
• Alerter

Installation

Drop notify.lua into the folder ~/.config/mpv/scripts/ (create it when necessary), and mpv will find it. Optionally, you can add it to mpv's command line:

mpv --lua=/path/to/notify.lua <files and options>

License

• Originally written by Roland Hieber
• Improvements by deyloop [email protected]
• Port to MacOS by me with a few enhancements