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+
+import socket
+
+from i3pystatus import IntervalModule
+
+class MPD(IntervalModule):
+    """
+    Displays various information from MPD (the music player daemon)
+
+    Available formatters:
+    * title (the title of the current song)
+    * album (the album of the current song, can be an empty string (e.g. for online streams))
+    * artist (can be empty, too)
+    * playtime_h (Playtime, hours)
+    * playtime_m (Playtime, minutes)
+    * playtime_s (Playtime, seconds)
+    * pos (Position of current song in playlist, one-based)
+    * len (Length of current playlist)
+    """
+    interval = 1
+
+    settings = (
+        ("port", "MPD port"),
+        "format",
+    )
+
+    port = 6600
+
+    format = "{title} [{playtime_h}:{playtime_m}:{playtime_s}]"
+
+    def _mpd_command(self, sock, command):
+        sock.send((command + "\n").encode("utf-8"))
+        reply = sock.recv(16384)
+        reply = reply.decode("utf-8")
+        replylines = reply.split("\n")[:-2]
+
+        return dict(
+            (line.split(": ", 1)[0], line.split(": ", 1)[1]) for line in replylines
+        )
+
+    def run(self):
+        with socket.create_connection(("localhost", self.port)) as s:
+            s.recv(8192)
+            fdict = {}
+
+            status = self._mpd_command(s, "status")
+            fdict["pos"] = int(status["song"])+1
+            fdict["len"] = int(status["playlistlength"])
+
+            currentsong = self._mpd_command(s, "currentsong")
+            fdict["title"] = currentsong["Title"]
+            fdict["album"] = currentsong.get("Album", "")
+            fdict["artist"] = currentsong.get("Artist", "")
+
+            playtime = int(self._mpd_command(s, "stats")["playtime"])
+            fdict["playtime_h"] = playtime // 3600
+            fdict["playtime_m"] = (playtime % 3600) // 60
+            fdict["playtime_s"] = (playtime % 3600) % 60
+
+            self.output = {
+                "full_text": self.format.format(**fdict).strip(),
+            }