1 -- Originally from https://awesomewm.org/recipes/mpc/
3 local lgi = require "lgi"
7 local trace_mpc = false
11 local function parse_password(host)
12 -- This function is based on mpd_parse_host_password() from libmpdclient
13 local position = string.find(host, "@")
17 return string.sub(host, position + 1), string.sub(host, 1, position - 1)
20 function mpc.new(host, port, password, error_handler, ...)
21 host = host or os.getenv("MPD_HOST") or "localhost"
22 port = port or os.getenv("MPD_PORT") or 6600
24 host, password = parse_password(host)
26 local self = setmetatable({
30 _error_handler = error_handler or function() end,
32 _try_reconnect = false,
33 _idle_subsystems = { ... }
39 function mpc:_write(command)
41 print("write: " .. command)
43 self._output:write(command .. "\n")
46 function mpc:_error(err)
47 self._connected = false
48 self._error_handler(err)
49 self._try_reconnect = not self._try_reconnect
50 if self._try_reconnect then
55 function mpc:connect()
56 if self._connected then return end
57 -- Reset all of our state
58 self._reply_handlers = {}
59 self._pending_reply = {}
60 self._idle_commands_pending = false
62 self._connected = true
64 -- Set up a new connection
66 if string.sub(self._host, 1, 1) == "/" then
68 address = Gio.UnixSocketAddress.new(self._host)
70 -- Do a TCP connection
71 address = Gio.NetworkAddress.new(self._host, self._port)
73 local client = Gio.SocketClient()
74 local conn, err = client:connect(address)
81 local input, output = conn:get_input_stream(), conn:get_output_stream()
82 self._conn, self._output, self._input = conn, output, Gio.DataInputStream.new(input)
84 -- Read the welcome message
85 self._input:read_line()
87 if self._password and self._password ~= "" then
88 self:_send("password " .. self._password)
91 -- Set up the reading loop. This will asynchronously read lines by
95 self._input:read_line_async(GLib.PRIORITY_DEFAULT, nil, function(obj, res)
96 local line, err = obj:read_line_finish(res)
97 -- Ugly API. On success we get string, length-of-string
98 -- and on error we get nil, error. Other versions of lgi
99 -- behave differently.
100 if line == nil or tostring(line) == "" then
101 err = "Connection closed"
103 if type(err) ~= "number" then
104 self._output, self._input = nil, nil
109 line = tostring(line)
110 if line == "OK" or line:match("^ACK ") then
111 local success = line == "OK"
114 arg = self._pending_reply
118 local handler = self._reply_handlers[1]
119 table.remove(self._reply_handlers, 1)
120 self._pending_reply = {}
121 handler(success, arg)
123 if next(self._reply_handlers) == nil then
127 local _, _, key, value = string.find(line, "([^:]+):%s(.+)")
129 local k = string.lower(key)
130 if k == "binary" then
131 value = tonumber(value)
134 local b = assert(obj:read_bytes(value))
135 table.insert(data, b.data)
138 local w = obj:read_bytes(1) -- read newline at end of binary
139 self._pending_reply[k] = table.concat(data)
140 elseif k == "changed" then
141 if not self._pending_reply[k] then
142 self._pending_reply[k] = {}
145 self._pending_reply[k][value] = true
147 self._pending_reply[k] = value
156 -- To synchronize the state on startup, send the idle commands now.
157 for i = 1, #self._idle_subsystems, 2 do
158 self._idle_subsystems[i+1](self)
164 function mpc:_start_idle()
166 error("start_idle but already idle")
168 self:_send("idle", function(success, reply)
170 if reply.changed then
171 -- idle mode was disabled by mpd
172 for i = 1, #self._idle_subsystems, 2 do
173 local subsys = self._idle_subsystems[i]
174 if reply.changed[subsys] then
175 self._idle_subsystems[i+1](self)
183 function mpc:_stop_idle()
184 if not self._idle then
185 error("stop_idle but not idle")
187 self:_write("noidle")
191 function mpc:_send(command, callback)
193 error("Still idle in send()?!")
196 table.insert(self._reply_handlers, callback or function() end)
199 function mpc:send(...)
201 if not self._connected then
208 for i = 1, #args, 2 do
209 self:_send(args[i], args[i+1])
213 function mpc:toggle_play()
214 self:send("status", function(success, status)
215 if status.state == "stop" then
223 function clamp(x, min, max)
224 return math.min(math.max(x, min), max)
227 function mpc:change_volume(change)
228 self:send("status", function(_, status)
229 new_vol = clamp(tonumber(status.volume) + change, 0, 100)
230 self:send("setvol " .. new_vol)
234 function mpc:currentsong()
236 self:send("currentsong", function(err, song)
237 if err then error(err) end
243 local function escape(str)
244 return "\"" .. str .. "\""
247 function mpc:albumart(uri, handler)
248 local image_table = {}
250 get_art_at = function(off)
251 self:send("albumart " .. escape(uri) .. " " .. tostring(off), function(success, data)
253 handler(success, data)
255 table.insert(image_table, data.binary)
256 if data.binary and #data.binary > 0 then
257 get_art_at(off + #data.binary)
259 data.binary = table.concat(image_table)
260 handler(success, data)
269 -- Example on how to use this (standalone)
271 local host, port, password = nil, nil, nil
272 local m = mpc.new(host, port, password, error,
273 "status", function(success, status) print("status is", status.state) end)
275 GLib.timeout_add(GLib.PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 1000, function()
276 -- Test command submission
277 m:send("status", function(_, s) print(s.state) end,
278 "currentsong", function(_, s) print(s.title) end)
279 m:send("status", function(_, s) print(s.state) end)
281 GLib.timeout_add(GLib.PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 1000, function()
286 GLib.MainLoop():run()