mpd conky

Hello all;

I am unable to have music playing on mpd (musicpd) to show up in conky. This worked on old FreeBSD install, I have bastardized my conky by stealing ideas online but nothing works.
I will appreciate any hints.

Code:
conky.config = {
override_utf8_locale = 'true',
use_xft = 'true',
xftfont = 'Cantarell:size=8',
text_buffer_size = 1024,
update_interval = 1.0,
total_run_times = 0,

double_buffer = true,
own_window = true,

out_to_x = true,
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_type = 'desktop',

own_window_transparent = false,
--own_window_type override
own_window_colour = '#000000',
double_buffer = true,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,above,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
 
--minimum_size  1920 0
maximum_width = 1920,
maximum_height = 1,

draw_shades = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = false,

default_color = '#5f5a5a',
color1 = 'red',

alignment = 'br',
gap_x = 350,
gap_y = 5,

no_buffers = false,
uppercase = false,
--cpu_avg_samples 8
short_units = true,

border_inner_margin = 0,
border_outer_margin = 0,

out_to_x = false,
out_to_console = true,
total_run_times = 0,
use_spacer = 'none',
}
 

conky.text = [[


Job  |  ${color FF0000}FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE${color FF0000}    |    ${color 7086b2} Machine: ${color b26f7a}$nodename${color 9c77b2}   |   Uptime: ${uptime} ${color 7086b2}    |   Cpu:${color 8c8b8b} ${cpu cpu0}%    |  RAM: $mem / $memmax $memperc%    |  Swap: ${swapperc}%   |   ${color 7086b2}Home: ${fs_used_perc /home/job/}%   |   ${color d1d1d1}Hdd: ${color} ${fs_used_perc /}% ${fs_used /} - ${fs_size /}${color}   |   ${color d1d1d1}Free: ${color} ${fs_free /}${color}${font}   |   ${color 9c77b2}${if_up wlan0}Up: ${color e0e0e0}${upspeedf wlan0}kb/s ${color 82BA00} ${color 82BA00}Down: ${color e0e0e0}${downspeedf lagg0}kb/s ${color 82BA00}    |   Batt: ${battery_percent BAT1}%   |   ${mpd_title}${color 9c77b2} * ${color 7086b2}Artist:${color b26f7a}${mpd_artist}${color 9c77b2} * ${color 7086b2}Album:${color b26f7a}${mpd_album}${color 9c77b2}]]
 
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