mpdLinuxTwitchSongScroll.py

#!/usr/bin/python2
"""
If you're a Linux user, and use mpd for your music player, this will push your
current song artist and title to a text file for importing into OBS.
"""

import time
import mpd

client = mpd.MPDClient()
#client.use_unicode=True
client.connect("localhost", 6600)
'''
for entry in client.lsinfo("/"):
    print("%s" % entry)

for key, value in client.status().items():
    print ("%s: %s" % (key, value))
'''

while True:
    time.sleep(2)
    songTitle = client.currentsong()["title"]
    songArtist =  client.currentsong()["artist"]
    text_file = open("Output.txt", "w")
    text_file.write("%s - %s                \r\n" 
            %  (songArtist, songTitle) )
    text_file.close()

client.close()
client.disconnect()