https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:41:32 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4659/i3status-showing-artist-and-album-infos-from-moc/Hi! How can I manage to show the album and artist information from my MOCP (Music on console)? I am a total newbie, so I don't know how to do that. I want to have something similar like this: fav.me/d5nw79f Thanks in advance!Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:54:20 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4659/i3status-showing-artist-and-album-infos-from-moc/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4659/i3status-showing-artist-and-album-infos-from-moc/?answer=4671#post-id-4671That's not quite an answer, but I was a moc user too, but after I've discovered mpd + ncmpcpp I found it a quite better and more configurable. And there's py3status plugin for showing mpd status in i3status. And as a general advice - first look into py3status ([http://github.com/ultrabug/py3status](http://github.com/ultrabug/py3status)) or other i3status wrapper, because writting modules for vanilla i3status is quite a challenge.Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:41:32 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4659/i3status-showing-artist-and-album-infos-from-moc/?answer=4671#post-id-4671