maemo.org - Talk - [application] qtPianobar

maemo.org - Talk (https://talk.maemo.org/index.php)

- Multimedia (https://talk.maemo.org/forumdisplay.php?f=32)

- - [application] qtPianobar (https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=42252)

[application] qtPianobar

qtPianobar

Is a qt 4.6 based c++ gui for the pianobar command line application

Why a GUI and also why another pianobar GUI

We all know why we needed a GUI for the command line app. As to why I wrote another pianobar GUI when fatal had already written one. Well the fact is we started writing them at the same time. He went python Qt, I went Qt 4.6 native C++, mostly because I wanted to see what all the fuss was about with Qt and I needed to dust off my c++ skills.

Features

Play/pause
Skip Song
Favourite Song
Ban Song
Choose Station Dropdown
Song Time/left Display

Things to do

Decent Username/Password handling
Creating Stations
General Cleanup of Code

Known issues

Right now the app assumes you have a config file in /home/user/.config/pianobar with the username and password fields uncommented and filled out with your pandora login. It also assumes that you have NOT customized the controls. If you dont have these things then it wont work - simple as that.

For those of you who don't know what the config looks like - here is is

Code:

# This is an example configuration file for pianobar. You may remove the # from

# lines you need and copy/move this file to ~/.config/pianobar/config

# See manpage for a description of the config keys

#

# User

user = your@user.name

password = password



# last.fm scrobbling

#lastfm_user = username

#lastfm_password = password

#lastfm_scrobble_percent = 50



# Proxy (for those who are not living in the USA)

#control_proxy = http://127.0.0.1:9090/



# Keybindings

#act_help = ?

#act_songlove = +

#act_songban = -

#act_stationaddmusic = a

#act_stationcreate = c

#act_stationdelete = d

#act_songexplain = e

#act_stationaddbygenre = g

#act_songinfo = i

#act_addshared = j

#act_songmove = m

#act_songnext = n

#act_songpause = p

#act_quit = q

#act_stationrename = r

#act_stationchange = s

#act_songtired = t

#act_upcoming = u

#act_stationselectquickmix = x



# Misc

# mp3 or aacplus

#audio_format = mp3

#autostart_station = 123456

#event_command = /home/user/.config/pianobar/eventcmd

There are most likely going to be bugs. Post them here until i get the garage page up and running for this thing.

Why Qt

Like it or not - this is where maemo is going. Figured I better get on board early. I also chose Qt 4.6 because the libs are optified and wont chew up your root partition (The app is also optified)

How

I have put it into the queue for extras devel but for some reason its not processing - this is not altogether unusual. In the meanwhile you can grab it from http://thecrayonbox.org/files/N900/q....0-1_armel.deb

You will also need to do from a command line.

apt-get install libqt4-maemo5-core
apt-get install libqt4-maemo5-gui

though if the package is working correctly it should prompt you for those packages.

Screenshot

http://thecrayonbox.org/files/attachment-8TJS6U.png

PS Thanks to fatal for porting pianobar. Excellent stuff.