MPC Bar

A Mac menu bar client for the Music Player Daemon.

Installation

If you have Homebrew, you can simply run these commands to install and launch MPC Bar:

brew install spnw/formulae/mpc-bar
brew services start spnw/formulae/mpc-bar

Configuration

MPC Bar is configured with a ~/.mpc-bar.ini file. Below are the default options. Note that format works just like mpc -f; see the mpc(1) man page for more information.

[connection]
host = localhost
port = 6600

[display]
format = [%name%: &[[%artist%|%performer%|%composer%|%albumartist%] - ]%title%]|%name%|[[%artist%|%performer%|%composer%|%albumartist%] - ]%title%|%file%
idle_message = No song playing
show_queue = true                       # Show queue/position info while playing? (true/false)
show_queue_idle = (value of show_queue) # Show queue/position info while idle? (true/false)