Hi!

Old version of Amarok use DCOP and

dcop amarok player path 


give a path to file now played

how I can get it for Amarok 2 with d-bus

Sorry for my english

Amarok 2 implements the MPRIS D-Bus standard. See here:

http://mpris.org/

Thanks for answer but I can't get it.
I can't find any function for use in my script.
Mabe imposible use one line command to get path to file now played.

Can you help me please?

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var currentSongPath = Amarok.Engine.currentTrack().path;


...yeah its late. but there will be other guys (like me) who will spend some hours to figure this out. 

Thanks, but I no get solution on your answer.

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

Thank you all,
But I'm not programer. I no need learn some programing language to get some simple do.

XMMS2 - it's better solution for me.

P.S. I need one string solution for simpe script on bash.

In bash  qdbus org.mpris.amarok /Player org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.GetMetadata will give you informations on the track playing including the location

Admittedly MPRIS is a pretty bare API.

As far as I'm concerned I think it should be a good idea to provide a method that return the location in a format that could be used directly in bash without having to convert filenames by replacing special chars (like %20 for a space, etc).
I mean if i want to retrieve filename for track at position "$i" in the Tracklist I have to do :

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 qdbus org.kde.amarok  /TrackList org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.GetMetadata $i|grep location|cut -d " " -f2-|cut -d "/" -f3-| ruby -ruri -p -e '$_=URI.decode$_'

It's a little bit long for a filename

Yes, this problem was in Amarok 1, until a non-urlencoded path was added to the dcop calls. So it would be nice if a 'qdbus org.kde.amarok /TrackList GetCurrentPath' call could be added, which would return a non-urlencoded path. Grepping for 'location:' doesn't seem like a good solution

Alanceil wrote:Yes, this problem was in Amarok 1, until a non-urlencoded path was added to the dcop calls. So it would be nice if a 'qdbus org.kde.amarok /TrackList GetCurrentPath' call could be added, which would return a non-urlencoded path. Grepping for 'location:' doesn't seem like a good solution

Sounds like a sane idea to me. We should probably add it then (hopefully we won't forget).

Maybe we could just bundle a mpris CLI client for people who want to do some basic stuff in bash. MPRIS is pretty bare if you use qdbus, but really it has all the information that you'd need for playlist and player operations.

gaillou wrote:As far as I'm concerned I think it should be a good idea to provide a method that return the location in a format that could be used directly in bash without having to convert filenames by replacing special chars (like %20 for a space, etc).
I mean if i want to retrieve filename for track at position "$i" in the Tracklist I have to do :

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 qdbus org.kde.amarok  /TrackList org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.GetMetadata $i|grep location|cut -d " " -f2-|cut -d "/" -f3-| ruby -ruri -p -e '$_=URI.decode$_'

It's a little bit long for a filename

Thank you!!! It works!!