[SOLVED] LED indicator to show when music is playing

[seipersei]

If only using MPD then one way to determine play state is via the command below.

Code:

# Playing
pi@moode:~ $ mpc status | grep playing
[playing] #50/50   0:10/0:39 (25%)

# Not playing
pi@moode:~ $ mpc status | grep playing
pi@moode:~ $

Hi Tim, thanks for your help. I will look into it - I'm quite new to this so I will see how to put something together in python or adapt some of the scripts suggested by swinokur