From e5b096282d9773869532ceb9cb944eeef6980eb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Hodgson <jonathan@lunarweb.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 12:18:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Make media player block only append artist if it is defined

---
 i3/blocks/mediaplayer | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/i3/blocks/mediaplayer b/i3/blocks/mediaplayer
index f8136ad5..2dfc80ba 100755
--- a/i3/blocks/mediaplayer
+++ b/i3/blocks/mediaplayer
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ artist=$($COMMAND metadata artist | sed "s/\&/\&amp;/g")
 
 if [ "$title" != "(null)" ]; then
 	ret="<span foreground='$colour'>$title</span>"
-	ret="$ret - $artist"
+	if [ -n "$artist" ]; then
+		ret="$ret - $artist"
+	fi
 
 	echo "$ret";
 fi