nodecg-nowplaying

This NodeCG bundle shows the currently playing song, and optionally a message.

To set up, follow the regular process of adding a bundle, but you also need to set up your preferred method:

• If you run NodeCG locally, tell your music player/script to dump the current song to bundles/nowplaying/view/nowplaying.txt (I use SFMT for this).
• If you want to get the current song from Last.fm, add your API key in the config gile (see below). You can get it from last.fm/api.

The panel on the dashboard allows you to set:

• A Last.fm song source. If this field is empty on update, the local file (view/nowplaying.txt) will be used.
• An optional message. If the message field is empty on update, no second line will be shown and only the song title is displayed.
• Whether automatic display should be on. If enabled on update, the song display will show for X seconds every time the title changes.

Configuration File

Create the configuration file in cfg/nowplaying.json. Default values are the ones shown below.

{
  "titletime": 10,
  "msgtime": 5,
  "update": 1,
  "apikey": null
}

• titletime is the time in seconds the music title should be displayed before switching the the message, if one is set.
• msgtime is the time in seconds the message is shown before switching back.
• update is the interval between checking the file or requesting the current song from the API, in seconds.
• apikey is your last.fm API key.

You may also want to edit view/nowplaying.css and change the top value of .musiccontainer so it aligns nicely with your layout.