mprisshell
(posted by Fred Emmott at 2008-08-23 07:58:44)
I've written a small bash CLI interface to MPRIS players, available at http://files.fredemmott.co.uk/mprisshell.sh.
It's currently rather limited in functionality:
Usage: mprisshell.sh [command] Commands: play Start playing the current track pause Pause the current track playpause If a track is playing, pause it; otherwise, play the current track next Skip to the next track previous Skip to the previous track incVolume [percentage] Increase the volume by 10%, or the given percentage decVolume [percentage] Decrease the volume by 10%, or the given percentage
It sends the above commands to the first MPRIS-capable player found; this includes the latest git head of YANIHP, Amarok 2, Audacious, and others. It's meant for normal users, not developers, for example as a program to bind to media keys.
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May I suggest changing the volume commands
Posted at 2008-08-24 05:31:53 GMT +0000 by "Henry"
May I suggest changing the volume commands? incVolume and decVolume, with an optional percentage change just seems quite clunky to me. Personally, I'm never a fan of camelCase on the command line. Some options could be: Change the command to 'volume 0-100', so the user could write 'mprisshell.sh volume 80' to set it to 80%? Shorten the commands to incvol/decvol, and make them case-insensitive? Or, 'volume +/-percentage'? What do you think?
Interesting
Posted at 2008-08-24 09:46:19 GMT +0000 by "gttt"
I had written such a similar script, but without dbus. It checks via the pidof-command if the one or other player is running and then is using this special command to address the player. e.g. "amarok -e track.mp3" or "xmms2 add track-mp3". While the dbus solution has a much cleaner concept, I would like to know if it already works with xmms2? As far as I found there are only plans to get xmms2 mpris compatible. What is missing currently are the commands: clear -- clear the playlist add -- add a single track radd -- add a directory recursivly rdir -- (I have named it like this, maybe you find a better name) add only the direct children of a directory, not recursively. where rdir is done like this: find "$RDIR/" -maxdepth 1 -type f | sort | xargs -d "\n" xmms2 add
Formatting
Posted at 2008-08-24 09:47:55 GMT +0000 by "gttt"
Oh the formatting of the post is lost in HTML. It should be printed in <pre> tags IMHO.
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Something a bit random
Posted at 2008-08-23 19:59:28 GMT +0000 by "Anonymous"
I read "mprisshell" as a VERY misspelled "misspell" first. Our mind is beautiful :)