Re: [Skunkworks] Amarok-Now-Playing for Kopete

9 Jun 2009


      For the sake of them that cannot download the script, here it goes in plain
text format:

##BEGIN

#!/bin/bash
#===================================================================================
#
#         FILE: amarok_now_playing
#
#        USAGE: amarok_now_playing [ > logfile]
#
# DESCRIPTION: Changes your status message in pidgin and/or
#               Kopete to the song you are currently listening to in Amarok.
#
#      OPTIONS: see function ’usage’ below
# REQUIREMENTS: --- Amarok 1.4.10, purple-remote, Pidgin 2.5.2 or Kopete
0.70.2
#         BUGS: ---
#        NOTES: ---
#       AUTHOR: Arthur Buliva, arthurbuliva@gmail.com
#      COMPANY: Mobile Planet Limited
#      VERSION: 1.0
#      CREATED: 26.05.2009 - 16:17:51
#     REVISION: 26.05.2009
#===================================================================================


STARTUP="dcop amarok player version"
ALLOWED_AMAROK_VERSION="1.4"
ALLOWED_KOPETE_VERSION="0.70"
PIDGIN="`kopete --version`"

#Test for Amarok
a=`$STARTUP`
if [[ "$a" =~ "${ALLOWED_AMAROK_VERSION}" ]]
then
    echo "Amarok $a [ OK ] "
else
    echo "     [ FAILED ] Make sure that you are running Amarok 1.4 `date
+%b-%d-%Y\ %T` "
    exit;
fi


#Test for Kopete
if [[ "$PIDGIN" =~ "${ALLOWED_KOPETE_VERSION}" ]]
then
    echo "Kopete $PIDGIN [ OK ] "
else
  echo "SEVERE: This script has been tested on Kopete 0.70 only `date
+%b-%d-%Y\ %T` "
  exit
fi

updateStatus()
{

    if [[ "`$STARTUP`" != "" ]]
    then

    SONG_TITLE="dcop amarok player title"
    ARTIST="dcop amarok player artist"

    KOPETE_STATUS='qdbus org.kde.kopete /Kopete'

    if [[ "`$KOPETE_STATUS`" == "" ]]
    then
    echo "SEVERE: Kopete is not running. This script will terminate `date
+%b-%d-%Y\ %T` "
    exit
    fi

    if [[ "`$SONG_TITLE`" != "" ]]
    then
    TITLE="♫ `$SONG_TITLE` by `$ARTIST`";
    echo "INFO: Now listening to ♫ `$SONG_TITLE` by `$ARTIST` `date
+%b-%d-%Y`";
    #Pidgin
    #`/usr/bin/purple-remote "setstatus?status=available&message=$TITLE"`
    #Kopete
    qdbus org.kde.kopete /Kopete  org.kde.Kopete.setIdentityOnlineStatus
"Online" "$TITLE"
    sleep 5;
    updateStatus
    else
    echo "INFO: Amarok is quiet `date +%b-%d-%Y`";
    TITLE="Amarok is quiet";
    #Pidgin
    #`/usr/bin/purple-remote "setstatus?status=available&message=$TITLE"`
    #Kopete
    qdbus org.kde.kopete /Kopete  org.kde.Kopete.setIdentityOnlineStatus
"Online" "$TITLE"
    sleep 5;
    updateStatus
    fi

    else
    echo "SEVERE: Could not connect to DCOP Server `date +%b-%d-%Y` "
    exit
    fi
}

updateStatus


##END