Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of MpdStatus

Timestamp:

Nov 7, 2005, 1:54:37 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

simon

Comment:

Added instructions

MpdStatus

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+= MPD Status =
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+MPD Status is a quick Python script to display some details about the track currently playing in [http://www.musicpd.org/ MPD].  It is intended for use in [http://wmii.de wmii]'s status bar.
+
+If you want a more featureful status bar, check out [http://wmii.de/index.php/Contrib/Szs3rd szs3rd], from which I shamelessly copied and hacked the {{{mpc.py}}} module.
+
+== Features ==
+  * Displays currently playing/paused song (that's a given really) with time.
+  * If metadata isn't provided, falls back to the basename of the file.
+
+== Requirements ==
+  * [http://www.python.org/ Python 2.4].
+  * [http://www.musicpd.org/mpc.shtml mpc].
+
+== Download ==
+Checkout [source:mpd-status/trunk/ mpd-status/trunk/] from the [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] repository:
+{{{
+svn co http://svn.bleah.co.uk/repos/misc/mpd-status/trunk
+}}}
+or, since it is just the one file, grab it via HTTP from http://svn.bleah.co.uk/repos/misc/mpd-status/trunk/mpd-status.py
+
+== Installation and Usage ==
+(Instructions are based around the setup for wmii 2 in [http://www.debian.org/ Debian], please add generic instructions where they differ)
+  1. Place {{{mpd-status.py}}} somewhere, like {{{/usr/local/bin/}}} or {{{~/.wmii/scripts/}}}.
+  1. Copy {{{/etc/wmii/status.sh}}} to {{{~/.wmii/status.sh}}} and edit it, or edit {{{/etc/wmii/status.sh}}} directly.
+  1. Edit the following line to include "{{{`python2.4 /path/to/mpc.py`}}}" (see patch attached to this page for an example):
+{{{
+text="`date` `uptime | sed -e 's/.*://' -e 's/,//g'`"
+}}}
+  1. Restart wmii: {{{/etc/wmii/rc restart}}}
+
+You should see some extra text on your wmibar, either "--Not playing--" or your currently playing/paused track.