Dynamic Music Pill is a GNOME Shell extension that adds a polished desktop music widget for MPRIS-compatible players.
It can be placed in Dash-to-Dock, Ubuntu Dock, or the top panel, and combines album art, track details, playback controls, and an optional pop-up interface in a layout that’s designed to blend neatly with the desktop.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Extracts dominant colors from album art for the widget background and visualizer, and can also sync the GNOME accent color or use fixed custom colors.
- Offers multiple visualizer modes, including an optional real-time mode that uses the cava package.
- Supports configurable click, double-click, middle-click, right-click, hover, and scroll actions for playback, volume control, player switching, and opening apps or settings.
- Can display scrolling text, inline artist information, fallback album art, compact mode, and synchronized lyrics with adjustable fade effects.
- Includes a pop-up menu with a seek bar, spinning vinyl effect, shuffle and loop controls, optional custom buttons, and a selector for active players.
- Provides player filtering, manual app ID mapping, and selected-player locking to improve control over multiple running media players.
- Lets users fine-tune placement, alignment, offsets, sizing, transparency, borders, and corner radius for dock and panel layouts.
- Includes game mode to reduce animation overhead in fullscreen apps, plus import, export, and reset options for settings management.
Website: github.com/Andbal23/dynamic-music-pill
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Developer: Andbal23
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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