[Rhythmbox-devel] Dbus getSongProperties problem

["Marc E." <elcomandante sbcglobal net>]

I am trying to do a simple python script that displays the current
playing song. It is based on the example on the src tree.

#!/usr/bin/python
# Display information for currently playing song

import dbus

bus = dbus.SessionBus()
rbshellobj = bus.get_object('org.gnome.Rhythmbox',
'/org/gnome/Rhythmbox/Shell')
rbshell = dbus.Interface(rbshellobj, 'org.gnome.Rhythmbox.Shell')
rbplayerobj = bus.get_object('org.gnome.Rhythmbox',
'/org/gnome/Rhythmbox/Player')
rbplayer = dbus.Interface(rbplayerobj, 'org.gnome.Rhythmbox.Player')

uri = rbplayer.getPlayingUri()

props = rbshell.getSongProperties(uri)
interesting = ['title', 'artist', 'album']
for prop in props:
  if prop in interesting:
    print "%s: %s" % (prop, props[prop])


The problem resides in that props = rbshell.getSongProperties(uri)
blocks, it takes a (long) while to get the data.

Any ideas on what might be causing that delay? 



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