On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 14:06, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 02:21, Jon Oberheide wrote: > > This patch for the 0.8 branch adds support for --print-playing-artist, > > --print-playing-album, --print-playing-track, and > > --print-playing-genre. Please consider for inclusion. > > Have you seen the various scripts that can do this? They are faster and > usually more versatile. My own is at > http://kai.vm.bytemark.co.uk/~piman/viewsvn.cgi/bin/rb-prettyprint?rev=3 > It's written in Python, and lets you use a format string to get the > title, artist, genre, album, rating, time, and track number. Some other > ones have circulated on this list, too. I'm currently writing a plugin for gaim that will use this information from rhythmbox. However, it is not desirable to depend on an outside scripts which depends on python. > It would be nice if something like this was included in the main > Rhythmbox install, but I don't think the rhythmbox binary is the right > place for it. Printing the title, path, and length is already supported in the binary; this patch just extends support to other song attributes. I think having the options in the binary provides greater versatility than depending on an external script. Regards, Jon Oberheide jonojono umich edu
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