Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] retreive rythmbox status via shell script.....

[mat nicholson <sjoeboo sjoeboo com>]

Jon,

i got a hackish version of my script running for now, but would really 
like to get into the bonobo client for my own personal benifit, however, 
with the code you gave me, i am getting this: (i did not alter anythign 
and was jsut runnign it as a test to see what i was dealing with...)

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "./rb-bonobo.py", line 7, in ?
   import bonobo.ui
ImportError: could not import gtk._gtk

any particular python bindings i need? i have teh python2.4-gtk2 binding 
installed and have been searching for related packages to no avail. any 
help would be great. thanks for the reply and suggestions.

On 4/26/2005 6:12 PM, Jonathan Matthew wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 04:07:33PM -0400, mat nicholson wrote:
>  
>
> > so, this is where i stand now. i have breifly broswed things such as the 
> > rhythmbox-gaim plugin etc to see how they get their data from rthymbox, 
> > however i would liek to avoid writting a program/plugin, and keep this 
> > script based. is tehre a way for me to contact rhythmbox from a diffrent 
> > term/from cron? is there a way to trigger something (a command) when 
> > rhythmbox changes songs?
> >    
>
> A couple of ideas:
>
> You could try DISPLAY=:0 rhythmbox --print-playing .. bit of a hack
> though.
>
> $ ls -al /proc/`pidof rhythmbox`/fd | egrep '\.(mp3|ogg)$' \
> 	| cut -d' ' -f11-
>
> .. even more of a hack, won't work for songs played off network shares,
> and will probably screw up if you're importing songs when it runs.  But
> it looks clever.
>
> It's actually pretty easy to write a bonobo client in python:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import CORBA
> import bonobo.activation
> import string
> import bonobo
> import bonobo.ui
> import gobject
>
> _ACTIVATION_FLAG_EXISTING_ONLY = 1<<2;
>
> def _song_cb(listener, event, ev):
> 	global rhythmbox
> 	properties = rhythmbox.getPlayerProperties()
> 	info = properties.getValue("song").value()
> 	properties.unref()
> 	if info is not None:
> 		print "now playing " + info.path
>
> rhythmbox = bonobo.activation.activate(
> 	"repo_ids.has('IDL:GNOME/Rhythmbox:1.0')",
> 	[], _ACTIVATION_FLAG_EXISTING_ONLY)
> if rhythmbox is not None:
> 	properties = rhythmbox.getPlayerProperties()
> 	bonobo.event_source_client_add_listener(properties, _song_cb,
> 		"Bonobo/Property:change:song")
> 	properties.unref()
> 	_song_cb(None, None, None)
> 	bonobo.ui.main()
> else:
> 	print "Rhythmbox isn't running"
>
> and you can make it do basically anything in the _song_cb function.
> It fails pretty badly if you restart rhythmbox, though..
>
> -jonathan.
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