On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 04:07:33PM -0400, mat nicholson wrote:
> so, this is where i stand now. i have breifly broswed things such as the
> rhythmbox-gaim plugin etc to see how they get their data from rthymbox,
> however i would liek to avoid writting a program/plugin, and keep this
> script based. is tehre a way for me to contact rhythmbox from a diffrent
> term/from cron? is there a way to trigger something (a command) when
> rhythmbox changes songs?
A couple of ideas:
You could try DISPLAY=:0 rhythmbox --print-playing .. bit of a hack
though.
$ ls -al /proc/`pidof rhythmbox`/fd | egrep '\.(mp3|ogg)$' \
| cut -d' ' -f11-
.. even more of a hack, won't work for songs played off network shares,
and will probably screw up if you're importing songs when it runs. But
it looks clever.
It's actually pretty easy to write a bonobo client in python:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import CORBA
import bonobo.activation
import string
import bonobo
import bonobo.ui
import gobject
_ACTIVATION_FLAG_EXISTING_ONLY = 1<<2;
def _song_cb(listener, event, ev):
global rhythmbox
properties = rhythmbox.getPlayerProperties()
info = properties.getValue("song").value()
properties.unref()
if info is not None:
print "now playing " + info.path
rhythmbox = bonobo.activation.activate(
"repo_ids.has('IDL:GNOME/Rhythmbox:1.0')",
[], _ACTIVATION_FLAG_EXISTING_ONLY)
if rhythmbox is not None:
properties = rhythmbox.getPlayerProperties()
bonobo.event_source_client_add_listener(properties, _song_cb,
"Bonobo/Property:change:song")
properties.unref()
_song_cb(None, None, None)
bonobo.ui.main()
else:
print "Rhythmbox isn't running"
and you can make it do basically anything in the _song_cb function.
It fails pretty badly if you restart rhythmbox, though..
-jonathan.
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