Display currently playing music on your Hyprlock lock screen with album-art and play-pause toogle.
- Displays currently playing track info
- Shows album artwork
- Automatic fallback for missing album-art
- Play/pause toggle from lock screen
Clean look when nothing is playing  |
Spotify  |
Local Player  |
Browser  |
NOTE! the script isn't slow or lagging the delay in display of play-pause is because of this line in hyprlock.conf
text = cmd[update:1000] echo "$(~/.config/hypr/nowplaying/nowplaying.sh)"
change the update time to small like 100 then it will update instantly
toogle.mp4
Caution
The bash script is configured to use ~/.config/hypr/nowplaying as default path. So, you can use the suggested installation step or modify it as needed.
# --- Configuration ---
art_file="$HOME/.config/rofi/nowplaying/album_art.png"
fallback_art_file="$HOME/.config/rofi/nowplaying/fallback_album_art.png"
cache_file="$HOME/.config/rofi/nowplaying/song_title.cache"
- Create the required directories:
mkdir -p ~/.config/hypr/nowplaying
- Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/Harsh-bin/hyprlock-nowplaying ~/.config/hypr/nowplaying
- Make script executable
chmod +x ~/.config/hypr/nowplaying/nowplaying.sh
Quick-Tip
Try to run nowplaying.sh before hyprlock.
Also check Rofi-nowplaying based on this script.
Created by Harsh-bin
Enjoy! 🎉