cmus-rpc

A Discord Rich Presence for cmus player

• Requirements for development:
  • jdk-17 or higher
  • Maven
  • IntelliJ IDEA (not required but recommended)

Syntax:

java -jar JCmusIntegrationWithDiscord.jar [Option] [value] [Option] [value] ...

Options:

Option	Description	Values
-h or --help	Show the help	-
-v or --version	Show the version	-
-d or --debug	Debug mode	-
-l or --link	Linking with cmus (close the program if cmus is not running)	-
-c or --config	Set custom path to config file	Path to config file .json
-i or --interval	Set interval between checks	interval time (seconds)
-s or --sleep	Set sleep when there is no activity	sleep time (seconds)
-p1f or --partOneFormat	Set the format for the first part	Format for first part
-p2f or --partTowFormat	Set the format for the second part	Format for second part

Examples:

java -jar JCmusIntegrationWithDiscord.jar -p1f %title%

java -jar JCmusIntegrationWithDiscord.jar -p1f "%artist% - %title%" -p2f "%album% - %date%"

java -jar JCmusIntegrationWithDiscord.jar -p1f "Anas listening to %title%" -p2f "From %artist%"

How to do auto run when you start the cmus

• Put the following in your shellrc file e.g. .bashrc or .zshrc bash alias JCmusIntegrationWithDiscord = 'java -jar path/to/jar/JCmusIntegrationWithDiscord.jar' alias cmus = 'JCmusIntegrationWithDiscord --link &>/dev/null & cmus'

Available in

I use

• cmus-remote tool to the make a query to the cmus
• Discord-RPC library to send the information to Discord
• The Discord API to learn more about RPC
• commons-clib2 library to parse the command line arguments
• jackson library to save the config.json and load it
• cmus-rich-presence for inspiration