| 1 | MPD Status |
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| 3 | MPD Status is a quick Python script to display some details about |
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| 4 | the track currently playing in [1]MPD. It is intended for use in |
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| 5 | [2]wmii's status bar. |
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| 6 | |
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| 7 | If you want a more featureful status bar for wmii, check out |
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| 8 | [3]szs3rd, from which I shamelessly copied and hacked the mpc.py |
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| 9 | module. |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | Features |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | * Displays currently playing/paused song (that's a given really) |
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| 14 | with time. |
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| 15 | * If metadata isn't provided, falls back to the basename of the |
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| 16 | file. |
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| 17 | |
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| 18 | Requirements |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | * [4]Python 2.4. |
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| 21 | * [5]mpc. |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | Download |
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| 24 | |
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| 25 | Checkout mpd-status/trunk/ from the [6]Subversion repository: |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | svn co http://svn.bleah.co.uk/repos/misc/mpd-status/trunk |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | or, since it is just the one file, grab it via HTTP from: |
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| 30 | |
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| 31 | [7]http://svn.bleah.co.uk/repos/misc/mpd-status/trunk/mpd-status.py |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | Usage |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | When run, the script simply outputs current track information (or |
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| 36 | '--Not playing--') to standard output. To have this update |
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| 37 | continuously, run it repeatedly inside a loop construct, for |
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| 38 | example (using sh): |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | while true |
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| 41 | do |
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| 42 | mpd-status.py |
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| 43 | sleep 1 |
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| 44 | done |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | Some example 'status' rc scripts for wmii 2.5 are contained in the |
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| 47 | examples directory. |
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| 48 | |
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| 49 | License |
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| 50 | |
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| 51 | mpd-status is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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| 52 | it under the terms of the [9]GNU General Public License as |
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| 53 | published by the [10]Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of |
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| 54 | the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
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| 55 | |
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| 56 | mpd-status is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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| 57 | WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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| 58 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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| 59 | [11]GNU General Public License for more details. |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | Extras |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | * [12]wmii-mpd-status.patch (497 bytes) - Example patch to wmii |
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| 64 | status.sh, added by simon on Mon Nov 7 13:57:32 2005. |
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| 65 | * [13]mpd-status.png (33 kB) - Screenshot showing status bar |
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| 66 | while playing, added by simon on Mon Nov 7 14:11:25 2005. |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | References |
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| 69 | |
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| 70 | 1. http://www.musicpd.org/ |
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| 71 | 2. http://wmii.de |
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| 72 | 3. http://wmii.de/index.php/Contrib/Szs3rd |
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| 73 | 4. http://www.python.org/ |
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| 74 | 5. http://www.musicpd.org/mpc.shtml |
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| 75 | 6. http://subversion.tigris.org/ |
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| 76 | 7. http://svn.bleah.co.uk/repos/misc/mpd-status/trunk/mpd-status.py |
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| 77 | 8. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html |
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| 78 | 9. http://www.fsf.org/ |
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| 79 | 10. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html |
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| 80 | 11. http://projects.bleah.co.uk/misc/attachment/wiki/MpdStatus/wmii-mpd-status.patch |
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| 81 | 12. http://projects.bleah.co.uk/misc/attachment/wiki/MpdStatus/mpd-status.png |
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| 82 | |
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