Hi,

back in good old KDE3 times I used a script to check if Amarok is running and query some information about the current song when Amarok was playing.

This is the relevant part of the script:

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pgrep -x -u $USER $PLAYER 2>&1 >/dev/null && PLAYING=`dcop amarok player isPlaying`
if [ "$PLAYING" = "true" ]
then
        ALBUM=`dcop amarok player album`
        ARTIST=`dcop amarok player artist`
        TITLE=`dcop amarok player title`
        YEAR=`dcop amarok player year`
        echo "Just listening to: $ARTIST - $TITLE ($ALBUM, $YEAR)"
fi

Now that DCOP is gone, how can I get the same result using dbus? I'm not a programmer and don't know very much about dbus.

Oliver

You should have a look here:

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Development/ ... _HowTo_2.0

There is also a link to the MPRIS reference in that page.

Mamarok wrote:You should have a look here:

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Development/ ... _HowTo_2.0

There is also a link to the MPRIS reference in that page.

Thanks for your reply. If I understand correct I have to use MPRIS to talk to Amarok. Unfortunately I'm not a programmer and I don't understand how to use it from a shell script. I'll try to search for some example scripts using MPRIS...

Oliver