VLC-Discord-RPC

Display your currently playing VLC music as Discord Rich Presence (with artwork support)

Features

• 🎵 Real-time status updates - Shows currently playing track, artist, and album
• 🖼️ Artwork display - Uploads and displays album artwork in Discord
• ⏱️ Progress tracking - Shows elapsed time and remaining time
• 🎮 Play/Pause states - Different icons for playing and paused states
• 🔄 Smart caching - Caches artwork to improve performance
• 🎛️ Auto-detection - Automatically reads VLC web interface configuration
• 📁 Audio file filtering - Only shows presence for audio files (MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG, AAC, OPUS)

Prerequisites

• Python 3.9+
• VLC Media Player with web interface enabled
• Discord Desktop
• A computer running Linux or Windows

VLC Setup

1. Open VLC Media Player
2. Go to Tools → Preferences
3. In the bottom left, select All under "Show settings"
4. Navigate to Interface → Main interfaces
5. Check Web to enable the web interface
6. Go to Interface → Main interfaces → Lua
   • Set a password in the Lua HTTP → Password field
   • Click Save
7. Restart VLC

Installation

Basic Setup

1. Clone or download the repository
2. Install required dependencies:

   pip install requests

Optional: Artwork Server Setup

For album artwork support, you can run the included Flask server:

1. Configure the artwork server:

   # In server.py, set your public domain or IP address
   BASE_URL = 'http://X.X.X.X:PORT'

2. Install Dependencies:

    pip install Flask flask_limiter filetype

3. Run the artwork server:

   python server.py

4. Update the main script:

   # In main.py, set your server endpoint
   ARTWORK_API_ENDPOINT = "http://X.X.X.X:PORT/upload"

Usage

1. Start VLC Media Player with web interface enabled, and start Discord
2. Run the Python script
3. Play any audio file in VLC
4. Your Discord status will update automatically

The presence will show:

• Song title as the main activity
• Artist name as the state
• Album artwork as the large image
• Play/pause status as the small image
• Progress bar with remaining time