Now Playing

• Only use key or command

  • Whether to only show pop-up when the keybind is pressed or the /nowplaying command is used.

• Music pop-up style

  • How to display pop-up for background music. Choice of toast, hotbar (status bar) message, or nothing.

• Jukebox pop-up style

  • How to display pop-up for jukebox music. Choice of toast, hotbar (status bar) message, or nothing.

• Fallback to toast

  • Whether to display a toast for music set to hotbar, if not possible to show a hotbar message.

• Silent toast

  • Whether the toast should make a whoosh noise.

• Toast scale

  • The size of the toast.

• Simple toast

  • Whether to show the "Now Playing" text as well as the track title in the toast.

• Dark toast

  • Whether to use a dark background for the toast.

• Toast display time

  • How long the toast will be displayed for.

• Hotbar display time

  • How long the hotbar message will be displayed for.

• Narrate pop-up

  • Whether pop-ups should be narrated, if the narrator is enabled.

Now Playing supports changing which disc sprites are displayed for each background music track via a resource pack. First, create a nowplaying folder in the assets folder of your pack, and place a sprites.json file in that folder, as shown below.

Note: If you are using version 1.5.16 or earlier, the mod ID (and thus, the folder name) is now-playing.

assets
├── minecraft
└── nowplaying
    └── sprites.json

Next, populate the sprites.json file with key-value pairs, where the key is the music resource location (or part thereof), and the value is the sprite location, as shown below.

{
    "minecraft:music/game":                   "minecraft:textures/item/music_disc_cat",
    "minecraft:music/game/creative":          "minecraft:textures/item/music_disc_blocks",
    "minecraft:music/game/creative/taswell":  "minecraft:textures/item/music_disc_chirp",
    "minecraft:music/game/nether":            "minecraft:textures/item/music_disc_pigstep"
}

If you only specify part of a music resource location, the corresponding disc will be shown for all music tracks in that location, except those that have a more specific definition. In the example above:

• All tracks in the game folder will use the cat sprite, except;

  • tracks in the creative folder, which will use the blocks sprite, except;

    • the taswell track , which will use the chirp sprite
  • tracks in the nether folder, which will use the pigstep sprite.

You can use any existing music disc sprite, or any sprite provided by a resourcepack.

If you have a resource pack that adds custom background music, you can specify titles using a translation file (e.g. en_us.json). First, create a nowplaying folder in the assets folder of your pack, create a lang folder inside, and place a translation file in that folder, as shown below.

assets
├── minecraft
└── nowplaying
    └── lang
        └── en_us.json

Next, populate the translation file with key-value pairs, where the key is the music resource location, prefixed with nowplaying, and the value is the translated title of the track, as shown below.

Note: If you are using version 1.5.16 or earlier, the mod ID (and thus, the prefix) is now-playing.

{
    "nowplaying.minecraft:music/game/a_familiar_room":     "Aaron Cherof - A Familiar Room",
    "nowplaying.minecraft:music/game/an_ordinary_day":     "Kumi Tanioka - An Ordinary Day",
    "nowplaying.minecraft:music/game/ancestry":            "Lena Raine - Ancestry",
    "nowplaying.minecraft:music/game/clark":               "C418 - Clark",
    "nowplaying.minecraft:music/game/creative/aria_math":  "C418 - Aria Math"
}

Old translation files which use the music.nowplaying.[name] format are still supported, but have a lower priority than the new format.