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-Shows mpd status in a textbox.
+[<- widgets](https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain/wiki/Widgets)
 
-       mympd = lain.widgets.mpd()
+Shows MPD status in a textbox.
+
+       mpdwidget = lain.widgets.mpd()
 
 Now playing songs are notified like this:
 
@@ -12,56 +14,72 @@ Now playing songs are notified like this:
        | +-------+                                              |
        +--------------------------------------------------------+
 
-Dependencies
+You need a file like this
+
+     (Front|front|Cover|cover|Art|art|Folder|folder)\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)
 
-- imagemagick
+in the album folder in order to show album art too.
 
-The function takes a table as optional argument, which can contain:
+### input table
 
 Variable | Meaning | Type | Default
 --- | --- | --- | ---
-`password` | Mpd password | string | ""
-`host` | Mpd server | string | "127.0.0.1"
-`port` | Mpd port | string | "6600"
+`timeout` | Refresh timeout seconds | int | 1
+`password` | MPD password | string | ""
+`host` | MPD server | string | "127.0.0.1"
+`port` | MPD port | string | "6600"
 `music_dir` | Music directory | string | "~/Music"
-`refresh_timeout` | Refresh timeout seconds | int | 1
-`color_artist` | Artist value color | string | `beautiful.fg_normal` or "#FFFFFF"
-`color_song` | Song value color | string | `beautiful.fg_focus` or "#FFFFFF"
-`spr` | Separator text between artist and song values | string | " "
-`app` | Music program to spawn on click | string | "ncmpcpp"
-`shadow` | Hide widget when there are no songs playing | boolean | false 
+`cover_size` | Album art notification size | int | 100
+`default_art` | Default art | string | ""
+`settings` | User settings | function | empty function
+
+`settings` can use `mpd_now` table, which contains the following string values:
+
+- state (possible values: "play", "pause", "stop")
+- file
+- artist
+- title
+- album
+- date
+
+and can modify `mpd_notification_preset` table, which will be the preset for the naughty notifications. Check [here](http://awesome.naquadah.org/doc/api/modules/naughty.html#notify) for the list of variables it can contain. Default definition:
 
-**Note**: `spr` can be a markup text.
+    mpd_notification _preset = {
+       title   = "Now playing",
+       timeout = 6,
+       text    = string.format("%s (%s) - %s\n%s", mpd_now.artist,
+                 mpd_now.album, mpd_now.date, mpd_now.title)
+    }
 
-`lain.widgets.mpd` outputs the following table:
+### output table
 
 Variable | Meaning | Type
 --- | --- | ---
 `widget` | The textbox | `wibox.widget.textbox`
-`notify` | The notification | function
+`update` | The notification | function
 
-Finally, you can control the widget with key bindings like these:
+You can control the widget with key bindings like these:
 
     -- MPD control
     awful.key({ altkey, "Control" }, "Up",
-    function ()
-        awful.util.spawn_with_shell( "mpc toggle || ncmpcpp toggle || ncmpc toggle || pms toggle", false )
-        mympd.notify()
-     end),
+        function ()
+            awful.util.spawn_with_shell("mpc toggle || ncmpcpp toggle || ncmpc toggle || pms toggle")
+            mpdwidget.update()
+        end),
     awful.key({ altkey, "Control" }, "Down",
-    function ()
-        awful.util.spawn_with_shell( "mpc stop || ncmpcpp stop || ncmpc stop || pms stop", false )
-        mympd.notify()
-    end),
+        function ()
+            awful.util.spawn_with_shell("mpc stop || ncmpcpp stop || ncmpc stop || pms stop")
+            mpdwidget.update()
+        end),
     awful.key({ altkey, "Control" }, "Left",
-    function ()
-        awful.util.spawn_with_shell( "mpc prev || ncmpcpp prev || ncmpc prev || pms prev", false )
-        mympd.notify()
-    end),
+        function ()
+            awful.util.spawn_with_shell("mpc prev || ncmpcpp prev || ncmpc prev || pms prev")
+            mpdwidget.update()
+        end),
     awful.key({ altkey, "Control" }, "Right",
-    function ()
-        awful.util.spawn_with_shell( "mpc next || ncmpcpp next || ncmpc next || pms next", false )
-        mympd.notify()
-    end),
+        function ()
+            awful.util.spawn_with_shell("mpc next || ncmpcpp next || ncmpc next || pms next")
+            mpdwidget.update()
+        end),
 
 where `altkey = "Mod1"`.
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