Hi I have seen xmms and audacious song title artist info displayed in conky I cant think of a way to do the same thing with mplayer
screenshot for xmms in conky
http://conky.sourceforge.net/conky-gon.png
audacious
http://conky.sourceforge.net/conky-drphibes.png
my conkyrc file
# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes
use_xft no
update_interval 4.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 280 5
maximum_width 300
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
text_buffer_size 10000
default_color green
default_shade_color red
default_outline_color green
alignment top_left
gap_x 10
gap_y 20
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
TEXT
Date & Time ${hr 2}
${alignc}${font Arial green:size:14}${time %l:%M}${font}
${alignc}${Time %A %m %d %Y}
System ${hr 2}
$sysname $kernel on $machine
Hostname $alignr $nodename
Uptime $alignr $uptime
${color green} RAM Usage:${color green} $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar}
${color green} Swap Usage:${color green} $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar}
${color green}CPU Usage:${color green} ${cpu}% ${cpubar}
${color green}Processes:$color $processes ${color green}Running:$color $running_processes
${color green}Top Processes:
${color green}Name PID CPU% MEM%
$color ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
$color ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
$color ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
File System ${hr 2}
Root ${fs_free_perc /}% ${fs_bar /}
Home ${fs_free_perc /home}% ${fs_bar /home}
Backup ${fs_free_perc /backup}% ${fs_bar /backup}
exbackup `${fs_free_perc /exbackup}% ${fs_bar /exbackup}
${color green}Networking:
${color green}Down:${color green} ${downspeed eth0} k/s${color green}${offset 80}Up:${color green} ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${color green}${downspeedgraph eth0 32,150 ff0000 0000ff} ${color green}${upspeedgraph eth0 32,150 ff0000 0000ff}
${color green}Address: ${color green}${addr eth0}${alignr}${color green}TCP Connections: ${color green}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}
${color green}Local Weather ${hr 2}
${color green}${execi 1800 /home/Joey/.my-scripts/weather/weather.sh}
${color green}Slackware Security Advisories ${hr 2}
${color green}${execi 300 /home/Joey/.my-scripts/conky-rss.sh
http://dev.slackware.it/rss/slackware-security.xml 5 1}