mprisence bridges MPRIS-compatible media players with Discord Rich Presence. It reads playback information from the desktop session and turns it into a configurable Discord activity without requiring player-specific integrations for common local players.
Configuration is centred around templates and player profiles. It can also work with web-based music services through a browser bridge, which provides richer information and controls than browsers typically expose through their standard MPRIS support.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Detects a wide range of local media players through MPRIS.
- Includes bundled presets for many commonly used media players.
- Uses Handlebars templates for title, artist, album, player, status, duration, and other fields.
- Supports per-player overrides for application IDs, icons, activity type, status text, and streaming behaviour.
- Supports per-site configuration for web-based media services.
- Fetches cover art from metadata, local files, MusicBrainz, and configurable online providers.
- Hot reloads most configuration changes.
- Can display different Discord activity types depending on the selected configuration.
- Provides detailed player discovery and configuration inspection commands.
- Includes a browser bridge for richer metadata, artwork, canonical URLs, seeking, and playback controls.
- Provides web-player presets for services including YouTube Music, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Tidal, Apple Music, Qobuz, Amazon Music, and Deezer.
- Supports automatic startup through the desktop session.
Website: github.com/lazykern/mprisence
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Developer: lazykern
License: MIT License
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Related Software
| MPRIS Tools | |
|---|---|
| playerctl | MPRIS media player command-line controller |
| mpris-ctl | Minimalistic command-line interface tool for controlling audio players |
| mpv-mpris | mpv plugin to control the player using standard media keys |
| mpd-mpris | MPRIS protocol for MPD |
| mprisence | Bridges MPRIS-compatible media players |
| empress | MPRIS media controls made simple |
| mpris-scrobbler | Minimalistic user daemon |
| MPRIS MiniPlayer | Displays whatever media in a MPRIS compatible player is playing. |
| mpdris2-rs | Expose MPD playback through MPRIS2 |
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