how to show albumart on ncmpcpp

okey in this article, i wanna show you how to make your ncmpcpp look beauty like your girlfriend. that its how to show album arts on ncmpcpp, its possible to show casue you don't need again album text statement. but, now you can look album picture when your play music on ncmpcpp.
this my ncmpcpp

okey lets move into step.


1. copy this scritp into your ~/.ncmpcpp/config

% egrep -v '^#' .ncmpcpp/config
mpd_music_dir = "/home/user/Music/"

mpd_host = "127.0.0.1"
mpd_port = "6601"
mouse_list_scroll_whole_page = "yes"
lines_scrolled = "1"

visualizer_in_stereo = "no"
visualizer_fifo_path = "/tmp/mpd.fifo"
visualizer_output_name = "my_fifo"
visualizer_sync_interval = "10"
visualizer_type = "spectrum"
visualizer_look = "▋▋"

message_delay_time = "3"
playlist_shorten_total_times = "yes"
playlist_display_mode = "classic"
browser_display_mode = "columns"
search_engine_display_mode = "columns"
playlist_editor_display_mode = "columns"
autocenter_mode = "yes"
centered_cursor = "yes"
user_interface = "classic"
follow_now_playing_lyrics = "yes"
locked_screen_width_part = "60"
display_bitrate = "no"
external_editor = "nano"

main_window_highlight_color = "white"

progressbar_elapsed_color = "white"
progressbar_color = "black"

#progressbar_look = "▃▃▃"
progressbar_look = "─⊙ "

mouse_support = "yes"
header_visibility = "no"
statusbar_visibility = "no"

statusbar_color = "white"
visualizer_color = "white"
titles_visibility = "no"
enable_window_title = "yes"

now_playing_prefix = "$b"
now_playing_suffix = "$8$/b"

#now_playing_prefix = "$u$2"
#now_playing_suffix = "$2$/u$2"

song_columns_list_format = "(6)[]{} (23)[red]{a} (26)[yellow]{t|f} (40)[green]{b} (4)[blue]{l}"

color1 = "white"
color2 = "black"

song_list_format = " $5%l  $7%t $R$5%a "

#uncomment both statement's below if you want to display the albumart

execute_on_song_change="~/.ncmpcpp/art.sh"
song_list_format = "                               $2%t $R$5%a "

song_status_format = "$b$7♫ $2%a $4⟫$3⟫ $8%t $4⟫$3⟫ $5%b "
song_window_title_format = " {%a} - {%t}"

2. and copy this code and save as art.sh to ~/ncmpcpp and making that script is executable by use that command chmod +x art.sh

#!/bin/bash

#put this file to ~/.ncmpcpp/




MUSIC_DIR=/media/dante/deb/Sounds/ #path to your music dir

COVER=/tmp/cover.jpg

function reset_background
{
    printf "\e]20;;100x100+1000+1000\a"
}

{
    album="$(mpc -p 6601 --format %album% current)"
    file="$(mpc -p 6601 --format %file% current)"
    album_dir="${file%/*}"
    [[ -z "$album_dir" ]] && exit 1
    album_dir="$MUSIC_DIR/$album_dir"

    covers="$(find "$album_dir" -type d -exec find {} -maxdepth 1 -type f -iregex ".*/.*\(${album}\|cover\|folder\|artwork\|front\).*[.]\(jpe?g\|png\|gif\|bmp\)" \; )"
    src="$(echo -n "$covers" | head -n1)"
    rm -f "$COVER"
    if [[ -n "$src" ]] ; then
        #resize the image's width to 300px
        convert "$src" -resize 300x "$COVER"
        if [[ -f "$COVER" ]] ; then
           #scale down the cover to 30% of the original
           printf "\e]20;${COVER};70x70+0+00:op=keep-aspect\a"
        else
            reset_background
        fi
    else
        reset_background
    fi
} &

3. in the art.sh look into MUSIC_DIR line and set the variable to your music dir. example:

 MUSIC_DIR=/media/dante/deb/Sounds/

4. assure, you have a album art picture in your music dir . i suggest, to make sub folder for your music with same album. like this, and dont forget to rename your picture album to cover.jpg

5. the dependecies you must have is mpc and imagemagick. at here i use 6601 port on my mpc and mpd, so you can change it to your port how much you use
and bingo, if you got flick on urxvt just adjust the geometry.

yeah that its, if you have question, comment , and thanks, just comment below. lets disqus.