Re: [Banshee-List] Command line control

[Alexander Kojevnikov <alexander kojevnikov com>]

2009/5/13 Bill Moseley <moseley hank org>:
> I'm trying to have an old X10 remote run a player.  Does Banshee
> have any more advanced way to control other than what is shown by
> banshee --help-playback?
>
> I currently have a Perl script that issues commands when keys on the
> remote are pushed.
>
> I'd like to be able to queue up songs and playlists, play, pause,
> stop, etc. and also skip forward/backward some number of seconds.
>
> A number of commands seem to fail:
>
>    $ banshee --set-volume=100
>
>    Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentNullException: Cannot handle a
>    null message; maybe the bus was disconnected
>
> but this works:
>
>    $ banshee --next

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541279