Ncspot Covers

For some time now I’ve been using ncspot as my Spotify client. It is really lightweight, and I’ve been trying to lower resource usage on my laptop. The thing I was missing was some kind of image to see what I’m listening to as I tend to have a visual memory.

According to the installation instructions, to see covers I have to install überzug. Fortunately for archlinux it’s only a command away:

sudo pacman -Sy ueberzug 

The thing I came to realize was that the packaged version and the ones from aur are not compiled with the cover feature enabled, so I had to compile it from scratch:

git clone https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot.git
git checkout v0.9.0
cd ncspot
cargo build --release --features cover
target/release/ncspot

Now everything is working, and I’ll try to get this enabled on aur.