I made a Bash script that uses Dunst to show an indicator on the screen when the volume, brightness, and song are changed. It ties into playerctl to fetch the current song title/artist/album. It can fetch the album art from a file or URL, and it will cache album art files in /tmp to reduce data usage and improve speeds. Album art has been tested with YouTube and Spotify on Arch Linux.
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Check it out here