CLUSTER DESKTOP-CURRENTLY-DISPLAYS · 31 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2024-03-16
Music playback desktop widgets
This cluster includes desktop and overlay utilities that display currently playing music and often provide playback controls, spanning widgets, plugins, and Discord presence integrations. Entries appear sporadically from 2013 to 2026, with a slight concentration in 2024–2026, though the overall density is low. Traction is led by desktop-card with 1 star, while gnome-shell-extension-dynamic-music-pill and plasma6-applets-plasmusic-toolbar each have 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 4 hand-coded · 7 unlabelled
Operator · 10 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 11 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21music-overlay0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA desktop overlay that provides convenience controls for managing music players.
- 22mocicon0★11 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop applet that provides a graphical control panel for a console-based music player.
- 23mufetch0★1 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that displays current music playback details in a system-info style.
- 24rhythmbox-plugin-alternative-toolbar0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourcePlugin that gives Rhythmbox an alternative, music-focused toolbar interface.
- 25lala-musicbar0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop widget that displays current music playback information in a layer-shell bar.
- 26cider-polybar0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA script that integrates Cider music player controls and information into a Polybar status bar for Linux users.
- 27covergloobus0★11 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop app that displays the currently playing song from a user's preferred music player.
- 28rhythmbox-plugin-tray-icon0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourcePlugin that adds a tray icon to Rhythmbox for quick access to music player controls from the system tray.
- 29touchegg-music-client0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceWidget that displays and controls music playback and volume, connected to gesture daemon.
- 30musicwidget0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceA desktop music widget that displays currently playing music information.
- 31simple-notion-widgets | Notion0★unknownliveMusic player widget that can be embedded in Notion pages to play audio tracks.
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