A cli tool for managing media players using DBus Mpris2. This repository consists of two programs, the daemon and the cli.
The daemon looks for a player that is currently active and the cli will use that as default target.
The cli may play, pause, toggle the target player. If the daemon is not running, first player that is found will be used. It may also skip songs and show metadata about the media currently playing.
> mpris-ctl
Manage dbus mpris2 players
Usage: mpris-ctl [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>
Commands:
play Send play media command
pause Send pause media command
toggle Send play if paused, else send pause
prev Switch to previous media/song
next Switch to next media/song
metadata Obtain metadata of the currently playing media
status Obtain status of the currently active player
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
--all-players
--active-players
--player <PLAYER>
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
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I am making this tool mainly for learning Rust. If you want a program that does all this one does, plus more, use playerctl.