Get playing song from osso-media-player
 

hey folks,

how can i get information of the current song/playlist from osso-media-player?

i found dbus howtos for controlling the player, but nothing for getting infos from it.

i want to get:
- title, album, artist from playing song
- same infos for the playlist entries or at least there path and filename
- playing position (and play/pause status)
- volume would be also nice

reason:
i want to write a small script/app that changes my mpd playlist at home to the maemo one and start playing the same track at the same position.
perhaps i could start it automatically when login into my home wifi

Re: Get playing song from osso-media-player
 

Does it broadcast DBus messages when the song changes? Might be worth a look.

Re: Get playing song from osso-media-player
 

Yes, it broadcast huge amount of infos when starting or changing track,
but logging all infos about playlist and track when starting/changing track doesn't seem to be the way todo imo.

Nevertheless thanks for the hint.

Re: Get playing song from osso-media-player
 

Isn't there an application named "Now Playing" that shows a notification every time a song changes with the title/artist of the song?

May be wrong about the name.

Surely you could ask that developer for some assistance.

Re: Get playing song from osso-media-player
 

i know for the N810 there is a "now playing" noification, works well too ;-) i use it too:cool:

Re: Get playing song from osso-media-player
 

Yes i know this app, but I need the information on a specific moment not only when song changes. Getting information about song changes would be easy, it is broadcasted on dbus.

Re: Get playing song from osso-media-player
 

Are you a good developer? If so, your prayers can be answered by downloading the following:

http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fre...6-1+0m5.tar.gz

And read the MAFW documentation when you get stuck.

Good luck!

Re: Get playing song from osso-media-player
 

osso-media-player isn't that the media player on the n8x0?
If you mean the n900 mediaplayer, take a look at
my media player widget, it uses the Mafw- framework for
obtaining this information. (Current playing song, playlist
and metadata).

regards
Nicolai

Re: Get playing song from osso-media-player
 

MAFW sounds good, I'll have a look on the python bindings.

Re: Get playing song from osso-media-player
 

No useable Python bindings for MAFW. You'll have to steal code from MediaBox to make MAFW clib calls inside Python.

Re: Get playing song from osso-media-player
 

really? :/ i've just began to look into pymaemo and already get a few infos about the playlist and shuffle/repeat mode. at which point the binding get unuseable? (except the non-pythonic syntax)

Re: Get playing song from osso-media-player
 

The maintainers abandoned the project before it became usable for an actual media player. You might get lucky for your needs, but don't be surprised if you hit a brick wall.

See this post for more details.