PlasMusic Toolbar

Overview

PlasMusic Toolbar is a widget for KDE Plasma 6 that shows currently playing song information and provide playback controls.

A Plasma 5 version of the widget is available in the plasma5 branch.

Features

🎵 Now Playing Song

• Show the currently playing song's title and artist in the KDE panel

⏯️ Playback Controls

• Manage your music effortlessly with Play, Pause, Next, and Previous controls directly from the KDE panel.

📸 Full View

• Full View provides the album image, along with Play, Pause, Next, Previous, Shuffle, and Repeat controls. Adjust the volume and track position with ease.

🛠️ Configurations

• Icon customization: Change the widget's icon in the panel view to suit your preferences. You can also choose to display the album cover.
• Font customization: Change the widget's text font to suit your preferences.
• Playback controls visibility: Choose whether to display Play, Pause, Next, and Previous controls in the panel view.
• Preferred source: Change the widget preferred source for music information (spotify, vlc, etc). The name of the source is the same as the desktop file name of the application (see /usr/share/applications/).
• Playing song max display width: Determine the maximum width for displaying the currently playing song in the panel. When the song's text exceeds this maximum width, the text will scroll horizontally.
• Playing song scrolling speed: Change the scrolling speed of the song's text.
• and more...

Installation

KDE store

You can install the widget directly from the kde store:

• https://store.kde.org/p/2128143

AUR package

For those using an Arch-based distribution, an AUR package is available:

• https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plasma6-applets-plasmusic-toolbar

Thanks to @D3SOX for creating and maintaining the package!

Nix package

For those using NixOS or the nix package manager, a Nix package is available in nixpkgs-unstable.

To install the widget use one of these methods:

• NixOS

  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
  plasmusic-toolbar
  ];

• Home-manager

  home.packages = with pkgs; [
  plasmusic-toolbar
  ];

• Plasma-manager

  programs.plasma = {
  enable = true;
  extraWidgets = ["plasmusic-toolbar"];
  };

• Other distros using nix package manager

  # without flakes:
  nix-env -iA nixpkgs.plasmusic-toolbar
  # with flakes:
  nix profile install nixpkgs#plasmusic-toolbar

Manual

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/ccatterina/plasmusic-toolbar.git /tmp/plasmusic-toolbar

2. Install the widget:

   kpackagetool6 -i /tmp/plasmusic-toolbar/src/ --type Plasma/Applet

3. Upgrading the widget:

   kpackagetool6 -u /tmp/plasmusic-toolbar/src/ --type Plasma/Applet

4. Removing the widget:

   kpackagetool6 -r plasmusic-toolbar --type Plasma/Applet

Screenshots