Conky Rhythmbox Python Script

[kaivalagi]

I tried using this when listening to the radio and I get this output for anything:

ERROR: Issue calling the dbus service:float division
Unknown

That's with errors disabled. With errors enabled:

ERROR: Issue calling the dbus service:float division
ERROR: Issue calling the dbus service:float division

rhythmbox-client gives a blank artist and the radio station as the title.

I'll take a look, first I have to find a radio to add...any good ones you can recommend?

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I'll take a look, first I have to find a radio to add...any good ones you can recommend?

This is one I listen to a lot: http://www.95bfm.com/bfm128.m3u
I don't know what kind of music you're into though, that's my university radio station and they play heaps of different stuff. That one doesn't always have the artist and title though. This station seems to always show these in rhythmbox: http://streams.swcast.net/launch.cgi...xy/hi-band.pls

I'm not that worried about this if it would be a lot of work. What you've done so far is really great.

Cheers,
Adam

[kaivalagi]

This is one I listen to a lot: http://www.95bfm.com/bfm128.m3u
I don't know what kind of music you're into though, that's my university radio station and they play heaps of different stuff. That one doesn't always have the artist and title though. This station seems to always show these in rhythmbox: http://streams.swcast.net/launch.cgi...xy/hi-band.pls

I'm not that worried about this if it would be a lot of work. What you've done so far is really great.

Cheers,
Adam

Still at work at 10:45PM...I need a remote login sorted to my home machine so I can play with my scripts

I'll take a look over the next few days, no worries

[kaivalagi]

UPDATE

I've added rudimentary support for displaying stream info when using online radio

Changes as follows:

• Added genre to the datatypes, used with --datatype=GE
• Added stream support, to display what is available and not crash
• Updated README

The first post has been updated and the apt package is available

Chimo

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I've added rudimentary support for displaying stream info when using online radio

That's awesome thanks! Works great.

[kaivalagi]

That's awesome thanks! Works great.

Glad it works

Out of interest, in your experience, is the title text always in the same format for all radio stations? Or is it down to what they define it as?

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I don't listen to a lot of different radio stations, but the ones I use all seem to show the title in the format "Artist - Title". I don't know if this is a Rhythmbox thing or something set by the radio station.

[kaivalagi]

UPDATE

Updated the script as follows:

• Added --errorlog and --infolog options to log data to a file
• Refactored and tidied up
• Updated README

The first post is updated and the apt package will be available shortly

[pijiu]

This is cool but it doesn't display my korean or chinese songs :s

[kaivalagi]

This is cool but it doesn't display my korean or chinese songs :s

mmm, it should support unicode and not be a problem, I don't have any korean/chinese songs to try it out on so can't create the problem.

Can you try the attached script, I have amended it in a couple of places to hopefully handled what you need.

just run it like before, except using the python command, e.g.

${exec python /path/to/file/conkyRhythmbox.py ..options...}

If that doesn't help, can you provide with with a link to an offending mp3/ogg to try out?