I'd like to present a tool I have been working on these past couple of months which allows you to show your currently playing song in your Discord status. I would even go so far as to say this might be the last music status you will ever need for Discord, for good!
Music Presence is a small tray application (not a MusicBee plugin) which detects media from almost any media player and allows you to share what it is currently playing in your Discord status, as you can see in the screenshot below. It comes with the following features, the first of which might sound very interesting to other MusicBee users and might pose as an attractive alternative to the current DiscordBee plugin:
• This status
shows the correct album cover 100% of the time for every media player, including MusicBee. Album covers are temporarily uploaded to a server which has been custom-designed for this purpose. Images are
not permanently stored, but only for the duration the status is visible, and only a 100x100 crop is uploaded which is easy on your bandwidth (usually only 20-30 KB in size per image).
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Works with any media player, so you can use a streaming service or another media player next to MusicBee and you don't have to worry about finding yet another tool or plugin to get the job done. Music Presence allows you to toggle your presence for any media player.
• And many more features, like: Full customizability of the status, exact playback positions in the status, the option to switch between "Listening to" and the old "Playing" activity type, the option to show either "Listening to MusicBee" or a more neutral "Listening to Music"/"Playing Music" message, an always visible tray icon which reflects the current state of your status (sharing music, not sharing music or presence entirely disabled) and more.
Important: Since MusicBee does not report what it is playing to Windows out of the box, a plugin like
this one (mb_MediaControl) must be used, otherwise Music Presence cannot detect MusicBee. Note that if your cover images are too large (e.g. 50 MB scans), this plugin is known to not report the image to Windows, which in turn means Music Presence has no image information to show in the status. Reducing the cover image size will solve that.
GitHub Project page:
https://github.com/ungive/discord-music-presenceDownload:
https://github.com/ungive/discord-music-presence/releases/latestHomepage:
https://musicpresence.app (currently just redirects to the GitHub project page)
I've also posted about this on Reddit earlier:
https://www.reddit.com/r/musicbee/comments/1fli01dYou can find more relevant links on the project page. I would love to hear your opinion on my project!
For those who are interested in the technical details behind how this works, i.e. how it is achieved that Music Presence can instantly show the cover image from the media player in your status, with practically no delay, here are some informative links:
High-level description of how it works:
https://github.com/ungive/discord-music-presence/blob/master/documentation/cover-images-proxy.mdA more in-depth explanation in a DiscordBee GitHub issue:
https://github.com/sll552/DiscordBee/issues/231#issuecomment-2339346636Source code of the component that powers this feature with more details in the project README:
https://github.com/ungive/loonIf you have any questions about Music Presence or if you're curious about more technical details, I'm happy to give more insight!
Kind regards,
Jonas
Topic: A new Discord Rich Presence for MusicBee - with 100% reliable album images (Read 6707 times)