Now Playing IRL
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Now Playing IRL

Display your real-life music in Minecraft!

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📖About Now Playing IRL

🎵 Now Playing IRL

Display your real-life music in Minecraft!

Fabric
Minecraft
Client Side


Now Playing IRL displays the music you're currently listening to on your PC directly in Minecraft!
Supports Spotify, YouTube, VLC, iTunes, foobar2000, and many more players.


✨ Features

Feature Description
🎧 Real-time Detection Automatically detects music from Spotify, YouTube, VLC, and more
🖼️ Album Art Fetches and displays album covers from iTunes/Deezer APIs
💿 Rotating Vinyl Smooth rotating album art animation
🎨 5 Beautiful Themes Cherry Blossom, Purple, Ocean, Forest, Sunset
⚙️ Fully Configurable Position, size, opacity, rotation speed
😴 Idle Animation Cute "Silence... ♪ zzZ" when no music is playing
🪶 Ultra Lightweight Client-side only, 60 FPS optimized

🎨 Themes

🌸
Cherry Blossom
(Default)
💜
Purple
🌊
Ocean
🌲
Forest
🌅
Sunset

⌨️ Controls

Key Action
N Toggle widget ON/OFF
M Open settings menu
, Quick cycle through themes

All keybinds are configurable in Options → Controls → Now Playing IRL


🎵 Supported Players

✅ Fully Supported

  • Spotify (Desktop App)
  • YouTube (Chrome, Edge, Firefox)
  • VLC Media Player
  • foobar2000
  • AIMP
  • MusicBee
  • Winamp
  • iTunes / Apple Music

🖥️ Platform Support

Platform Status
Windows ✅ Full Support
macOS ✅ Spotify & Apple Music
Linux ✅ Via MPRIS (playerctl)

⚙️ Configuration

Open the config menu with M or through Mod Menu.

Option Description Default
Position Widget corner position Bottom Right
Scale Widget size (50% - 200%) 100%
Opacity Widget transparency 90%
Rotation Speed Album art spin speed Normal
Show Album Art Display/hide cover Visible
Theme Color scheme Cherry Blossom

📦 Installation

  1. Install Fabric Loader for Minecraft 1.21.4
  2. Install Fabric API
  3. Download Now Playing IRL and put it in your mods folder
  4. (Optional) Install Mod Menu for easy config access

💡 How It Works

The mod detects your currently playing music by reading window titles from media players. When music is detected:

  1. 🔍 Extracts Artist and Title from the player window
  2. 🌐 Fetches album artwork from iTunes/Deezer APIs
  3. 🎨 Displays everything in a beautiful HUD widget
  4. 💿 Animates the album cover with smooth rotation

❓ FAQ

Why isn't my music detected?

Make sure your media player shows the song info in its window title. Most players do this by default.

Why is there no album cover?

The mod fetches covers from iTunes/Deezer. If the song isn't in their database, a vinyl placeholder is shown instead.

Does this work on servers?

Yes! This is a client-side only mod. It works on any server without requiring server-side installation.

Does this affect performance?

No! The mod is optimized to run at 60 FPS with minimal CPU usage. Music detection runs on a separate thread.


🔧 Dependencies

Mod Required
Fabric API ✅ Yes
Mod Menu ❌ Optional

📜 License

This mod is licensed under CC-BY-NC-4.0 License.


Made with 💜 for the Minecraft community

Enjoy your music in Minecraft! 🎵