Version: (using KDE 4.0.83) Installed from: Mandriva RPMs nowplaying applet display song currently playing on the computer. it supports various backend, such as amarok, juk, xmms. i propose to add mpd (music player daemon, http://musicpd.org) as a source in nowplaying dataengine. mpd being client-server based, it's easy to do so. either connect to port 6600 and issue the command: currentsong which will return all the wanted information on the song currently being played. or even simpler, run the mpc command-line utility which is almost always installed when mpd is used: mpc --format "%album%\n%track%\n%artist%\n%title%" and get the current song information on the 4 first lines.
Yes, I would like to do this. It won't be until 4.4, though (4.3 is in feature freeze).
any news for this? i'm running kde 4.3.73 and applet "now playing" does not seem to connect to mpd.
I've made the decision that the only sensible approach for nowplaying is to only support MPRIS2-capable media players. If you want MPD to work with it, you need some sort of "bridge". See https://github.com/eonpatapon/mpDris2, for example.