| 1 | MPD Status |
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| 3 | MPD Status is a quick Python script to display some details about the |
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| 4 | 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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| 7 | If you want a more featureful status bar, check out [3]szs3rd, from |
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| 8 | which I shamelessly copied and hacked the mpc.py module. |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | Features |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | * Displays currently playing/paused song (that's a given really) |
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| 13 | with time. |
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| 14 | * If metadata isn't provided, falls back to the basename of the |
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| 15 | file. |
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| 16 | |
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| 17 | Requirements |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | * [4]Python 2.4. |
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| 20 | * [5]mpc. |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | Download |
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| 23 | |
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| 24 | Checkout mpd-status/trunk/ from the [6]Subversion repository: |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | svn co http://svn.bleah.co.uk/repos/misc/mpd-status/trunk |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | or, since it is just the one file, grab it via HTTP from: |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | [7]http://svn.bleah.co.uk/repos/misc/mpd-status/trunk/mpd-status.py |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | Installation and Usage |
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| 33 | |
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| 34 | (Instructions are based around the setup for wmii 2 in [8]Debian) |
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| 35 | |
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| 36 | 1. Place mpd-status.py somewhere, like /usr/local/bin/ or |
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| 37 | ~/.wmii/scripts/ |
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| 38 | 2. Copy /etc/wmii/status.sh to ~/.wmii/status.sh and edit it, or |
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| 39 | edit /etc/wmii/status.sh directly. |
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| 40 | 3. Edit the following line to include "`python2.4 /path/to/mpc.py`" |
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| 41 | (see patch below for an example): |
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| 42 | |
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| 43 | text="`date` `uptime | sed -e 's/.*://' -e 's/,//g'`" |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | 4. Restart wmii: /etc/wmii/rc restart |
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| 46 | |
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| 47 | You should see some extra text on your wmibar, either "--Not |
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| 48 | playing--" or your currently playing/paused track. |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | License |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | mpd-status is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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| 53 | under the terms of the [9]GNU General Public License as published by the |
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| 54 | [10]Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your |
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| 55 | option) any later version. |
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| 56 | |
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| 57 | Svnbot is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY |
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| 58 | WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS |
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| 59 | FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the [11]GNU General Public License for more |
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| 60 | details. |
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| 61 | |
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| 62 | Extras |
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| 63 | |
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| 64 | * [12]wmii-mpd-status.patch (497 bytes) - Example patch to wmii |
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| 65 | status.sh, added by simon on Mon Nov 7 13:57:32 2005. |
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| 66 | * [13]mpd-status.png (33 kB) - Screenshot showing status bar while |
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| 67 | playing, added by simon on Mon Nov 7 14:11:25 2005. |
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| 68 | |
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| 69 | References |
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| 70 | |
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| 71 | 1. http://www.musicpd.org/ |
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| 72 | 2. http://wmii.de |
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| 73 | 3. http://wmii.de/index.php/Contrib/Szs3rd |
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| 74 | 4. http://www.python.org/ |
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| 75 | 5. http://www.musicpd.org/mpc.shtml |
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| 76 | 6. http://subversion.tigris.org/ |
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| 77 | 7. http://svn.bleah.co.uk/repos/misc/mpd-status/trunk/mpd-status.py |
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| 78 | 8. http://www.debian.org/ |
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| 79 | 9. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html |
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| 80 | 10. http://www.fsf.org/ |
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| 81 | 11. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html |
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| 82 | 12. http://projects.bleah.co.uk/misc/attachment/wiki/MpdStatus/wmii-mpd-status.patch |
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| 83 | 13. http://projects.bleah.co.uk/misc/attachment/wiki/MpdStatus/mpd-status.png |
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| 84 | |
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