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.
- Show the currently playing song's title and artist in the KDE panel
- Manage your music effortlessly with Play, Pause, Next, and Previous controls directly from the KDE panel.
- Full View provides the album image, along with Play, Pause, Next, Previous, Shuffle, and Repeat controls. Adjust the volume and track position with ease.
- 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...
You can install the widget directly from the kde store:
For those using an Arch-based distribution, an AUR package is available:
Thanks to @D3SOX for creating and maintaining the package!
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/ccatterina/plasmusic-toolbar.git /tmp/plasmusic-toolbar
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Install the widget:
kpackagetool6 -i /tmp/plasmusic-toolbar/src/ --type Plasma/Applet
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Upgrading the widget:
kpackagetool6 -u /tmp/plasmusic-toolbar/src/ --type Plasma/Applet
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Removing the widget:
kpackagetool6 -r plasmusic-toolbar --type Plasma/Applet
