jaor/xmobar — Issue #37: Dynamic MPD Monitor string
Author: johntyree
Created: 2012-02-21 17:58:14+00:00
State: open

I listen to a lot of streaming radio. For whatever reason, the vast majority of stations only broadcast the title of the current song. To be sneaky, they include the artist in the title like title: "Artist - Title". When this is displayed, the empty artist info isn't ignored so there is a strange blank space. Mine currently looks like ![this](http://i.imgur.com/efbk7.png).
You can see the problem, there, given that my config is `" -

"`. There's no way to make the 'static' part of the string depend on the tag info.

Idea: If there is a tag field available, we display some user specified string, presumably containing <tag>. If no tag info is available, nothing is presented.