Scripts for Amarok

[MattDobson]

Hi,

I am new to Fedora and I am needing some help with a script that displays the currently playing album on the desktop, can someone please help me with a simple explanation how to do this.

[Jamwa]

What audio player are you using?

[MattDobson]

Shoot sorry...Amarok 2.1.1.

[Jamwa]

Perhaps you could use qdbus. this is a sample output in my case:

sh-4.0$ qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata
album: Unbekanntes Album (16.01.2007 10:44:12)
artist: BoneyM.
arturl:
audio-bitrate: 128
audio-samplerate: 44100
comment:
genre: Unbekannt
location: file:///windows/jukebox/BoneyM/BoneyM%20-%20Happy%20Song.mp3
mtime: 238000
rating: 0
time: 238
title: Happy Song
tracknumber: 12
year: 0
sh-4.0$

Grep the output to get what you want:

sh-4.0$ qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata | grep artist
artist: BoneyM.
sh-4.0$ qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata | grep title
title: Happy Song
sh-4.0$

[MattDobson]

This might sound like a silly question but is there a plasmoid that will do the trick for this?

[ozjd]

Originally Posted by Jamwa

Perhaps you could use qdbus. this is a sample output in my case:

sh-4.0$ qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata
album: Unbekanntes Album (16.01.2007 10:44:12)
artist: BoneyM.
arturl:
audio-bitrate: 128
audio-samplerate: 44100
comment:
genre: Unbekannt
location: file:///windows/jukebox/BoneyM/BoneyM%20-%20Happy%20Song.mp3
mtime: 238000
rating: 0
time: 238
title: Happy Song
tracknumber: 12
year: 0
sh-4.0$

Grep the output to get what you want:

sh-4.0$ qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata | grep artist
artist: BoneyM.
sh-4.0$ qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata | grep title
title: Happy Song
sh-4.0$

This is useful Jamwa Thanks.

I am setting up Conky to show the current track info. However when I do
qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata | grep album

I also get arturl: which is the album art location. Am I doing it wrong, I doubt I am as other lines for artist and title etc. work, or is it a bug? Any suggestions?

[ozjd]

Originally Posted by MattDobson

This might sound like a silly question but is there a plasmoid that will do the trick for this?

I know its been a while but if you haven't found it Matt there is a Now Playing plasmoid which works well.

[ozjd]

Silly me

I just worked out what was happening. Amarok save album covers in a folder titled "albumcovers" so it is finding that too. I changed the command to
qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata | grep album:
and the final colon did the trick, I got only the album name.