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This was a very hard question to Google since there are lot of similar problems with similar wordings. To be specific, what I'm after is purely for aesthetic purposes:

TL;DR: This could be a question with an easy answer, but I'm either looking for a solution that allows me to use larger content images in macOS Big Sur notifications or evidence that it is no longer possible.

In macOS X High Sierra (and possibly Catalina), it was possible to display notifications in the top-right of the screen like so:

I'm working on changes to the OSS spotify-now-playing that will allow displaying album art in notifications as it currently does not do this. Here's what it looks like in Big Sur:

It was easy enough to add the content image to the notification. This is what that looks like:

The code for this looks something like this (chopped up for clarity):

I am trying to pass the output of a shell script into python, it works when I do not have unicode characters inside the string that should be returned. The bash script that gets the currently played music:

I would like to get the path of the file currently played by vlc. It seems that information can be obtained using the http server of vlc.

Since I don't know much about http, I was not able to do it even with the help of the previous link or the vlc documentation.

To start an http server, I am supposed to use the command vlc -I http.

First question: Since this command does not open a vlc window, should I open a vlc window by myself after using this command? Or before? Or maybe it does not matter?

So I chose to first use the command, then open a vlc window and play an mp3 file in it.

To get information from vlc, the first link says:

You can then retrieve player status and track information by issuing a GET request to http://127.0.0.1:8080/requests/status.xml

I am not sure how to do a GET request. I tried wget:

I'm fetching from the moviedb api and working on searching movies. I've taken some reference from alligator.io tutorial. Below is my code of the Header component where i am fetching the data.

Header.js

I've run into a strange behaviour that I've been unable to figure out in my PHP code

using this code (omitting the entirety for the moment) -->

my theme is using Jplayer for a music player. but there is a problem that sometimes the music starts to play for no reason and I didn't click on the play button. sometimes I pause the player and refresh the page or move to another page, and the player starts from the beginning. How can I fix this and disable autoplay for my player?