Pure Lua implementation of a Media Player Widget, supports any media player complaint with MPRIS D-Bus MediaPlayer2.Player interface

Some examples are: mpd, vlc, audacious, bmp, xmms2, spotify and mpv with a plugin

Lua D-Bus Proxy handles connections with D-Bus interface to read data regarding current playing music and artist to fill the widget. Lua D-Bus proxy is available at Luarocks. Further installation info available here

Drop the plugin code into your AwesomeWM configuration folder. e.g.:

[[ -d ~/.config/awesome/plugins ]] || mkdir ~/.config/awesome/plugins
cd ~/.config/awesome/plugins

git clone https://github.com/macunha1/awesomewm-media-player-widget \
    ~/.config/awesome/plugins/media-player

In case your AwesomeWM configuration is a git repository, you can add as a submodule with

cd ~/.config/awesome

git submodule add -b master \
    -f --name media-player-widget \
    https://github.com/macunha1/awesomewm-media-player-widget \
    plugins/media-player

git submodule sync --recursive .

Lastly, import the plugin into your rc.lua, configure according to your style and keep on Rollin':

-- load the widget code
local media_player = require("plugins.media-player")

-- be free to configure your media player widget:
local spotify_widget = media_player({
    icons  = {
        play   = theme.play,
        pause  = theme.pause
    },
    font         = theme.font,
    name         = "spotify", -- target media player
    refresh_rate = 0.3 -- interval between widget update calls
}).widget

fake.wibar:set {
    layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal,
    -- ...
    {
        -- ...
        separator,
        media_player_widget,
        -- ...
    }
    -- ...
}

By default the widget hides itself when no data regarding a media player is found through MPRIS D-Bus interface. In case you're planning to inspect many at the same time, it's possible to create many instances of the widget (media_player) and attach to your wibar.