possible, whether it's a network stream or a file without metadata) of the
currently playing song to stdout, clipped and ellipsized to a width of 60
chars, and a more verbose tooltip to stderr.

https://github.com/ohnonot/media-player-info
Features and options include splitting into multiple lines respecting word boundaries, support of multiple players without having to settle on one, player controls dumped to a file, icons...
If you use tint2 it will fit right into its executor plugin, and that's what i wrote it for, but it doesn't require tint2 at all.
i'm still trying to figure out if this is useful to anybody but me. please share your thoughts - and don't spare the venom
