Re: [Banshee-List] Getting song metadata from Banshee 1.0 RC 1 via D-Bus



On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 20:27 -0500, Gabriel Burt wrote:
> 2008/6/3 Paul Kuliniewicz <paul kuliniewicz gmail com>:
> > I'm working on adding support for Banshee 1.0 to Music Applet [0], but
> > so far I haven't found a way to get the metadata for the current song
> > from the D-Bus interface.  I can get its URI by calling GetCurrentUri on
> > the PlayerEngine object, but I don't see any methods that take a URI and
> > return the associated metadata, or to just get the metadata for the
> > current song directly (like there was in 0.13.x).  Am I missing
> > something, or will this be added in a later version?
> 
> You should use dbus-explorer or d-feet to see what Banshee exposes
> over dbus.  You need to get CurrentTrack, not CurrentUri.  Good luck!

Now that that's working, I have a few follow-up questions:

1. Is there a way to get the album art for the current song?

2. Is there a way to set the rating of the current song?

3. When I call GetCurrentTrack, the rating always comes back as 0, even
if a rating exists.  Should I file a bug?

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