Current Song 2

The documentation is located at currentsong.nerixyz.de.

This project is a rewrite of the CurrentSong Overlay. The core is written in Rust now. Both Windows and Unix platforms are supported. On Windows, GlobalSystemMediaTransportControls is used and on Unix, D-Bus is used.

The goal of the project is to create a simple yet powerful overlay that displays the currently playing song. There are a few unique features separating this project:

• Near zero latency ⏱ Current Song 2 doesn't poll applications or APIs for updates.

• Displaying Progress 💯 Progress is displayed where available.

• Display Album Art 🖼

• Customizable 🔧 The overlay is customizable through CSS (theme.css) and JavaScript (user.js), see Customization. Modules and the server can be configured in a config.toml file, see Configuration.

• Setup

• Configuration

• Customization

• Building

Architecture

graph TD;
    gsmtc[GSMTC<br><i>Windows</i>]
    dbus[MPRIS D-Bus<br><i>Unix</i>]
    ext[Browser Extension]
    cso2[CurrentSong2]
    ext-->cso2
    Browser-->dbus
    Spotify-->dbus
    VLC-->dbus
    MPV-->dbus
    Browser-- limited <br> playback progress -->gsmtc
    Browser-- playback progress -->ext
    Spotify-->gsmtc
    gsmtc-->cso2
    dbus-->cso2
    cso2-->Overlay

Planned Features

See more in the projects tab.