Amarok 2.4 and Conky (using AWK, help!)

**chowanec** · January 29th, 2011

Hey all -- this was working under 2.3, but it looks like they threw in AlbumArtist as part of the GetMetaData command in 2.4

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Here's all the metadata for a particular track:

Code:

album: Summer of Fear
albumartist: Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
artist: Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
arturl: amarok-sqltrackuid://1480f28de21b8b2a87f4463bc7a2dc16
audio-bitrate: 261
audio-samplerate: 44100
comment: Amazon.com Song ID: 212954979
genre: Indie
location: file:///home/chow/Network/Music/Miles%20Benjamin%20Anthony%20Robinson/Summer%20of%20Fear/02%20-%20Always%20an%20Anchor.mp3
lyrics: "www.lyricsplugin.com"

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mtime: 252000
rating: 0
time: 252
title: Always an Anchor
tracknumber: 2
year: 2009

And my problem is this -- when I awk for the artist: line, I get both the Artist and the AlbumArtist metadata lines. Is there a way to isolate JUST "artist:" and have it ignore/skip "albumartist:"?

Command:

Code:

qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata | awk '/artist:/{print substr($0,9)}' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'

Output:

Code:

ist: miles benjamin anthony robinson
miles benjamin anthony robinson

The first line, as you can see is from the albumartist: entry and the second (correct) line is for the artist: entry. Obviously this is screwing up my once-beautiful conky setup.

I stole this script from someone ages ago -- and I don't quite understand the intracacies of awk yet.

Help?

-Chow