Conky Banshee Python Script

[zyxyellowxyz]

<name> needs replacing with YOUR username

It was/is, I just left it out because I don't like to share it with the world.

if it is then you need to make sure you are running conky v1.7.1+, as previous versions do not support the image tag in your conkyrc

I had just unistalled conky and recompiled it from source to make sure I had images enabled.

Conky 1.7.1.1 compiled Mon Aug 17 18:31:57 CDT 2009 for Linux 2.6.28-14-generic (i686)

Compiled in features:

System config file: /usr/local/etc/conky/conky.conf

 X11:
  * Xdamage extension
  * XDBE (double buffer extension)
  * Xft

 Music detection:
  * MPD
  * MOC

 General:
  * OpenMP
  * math
  * hddtemp
  * portmon
  * RSS
  * Lua
  * nvidia
  * config-output
  * Imlib2
  * ALSA mixer support
  * apcupsd

If "conkyBanshee --datatype=CA" run in the terminal return the album art then the problem is not with my script but with the scripting surrounding it...

My husband ended up being able to fix it by changing it to this:

${execi cp "`conkyBanshee --datatype=CA | sed -e 's/\\\//g'`" /home/<name>/.album/image.jpg}${image /home/<name>/.album/image.jpg -p 0,2 -s 64x64}

Apparently it was having troubles calling the different image names from the ~/.album folder so now when the images get copied, they're all named image.jpg.
Apparently that was the only thing that was wrong when I posted that yesterday. It works now, and I'm happy.

[kaivalagi]

My husband ended up being able to fix it by changing it to this:

${execi cp "`conkyBanshee --datatype=CA | sed -e 's/\\\//g'`" /home/<name>/.album/image.jpg}${image /home/<name>/.album/image.jpg -p 0,2 -s 64x64}

Apparently it was having troubles calling the different image names from the ~/.album folder so now when the images get copied, they're all named image.jpg.
Apparently that was the only thing that was wrong when I posted that yesterday. It works now, and I'm happy.

Good times

[WiseGuy1020]

Hey K,

I have two problems with the Banshee script and I was hoping you might help me with it.


1. Whenever banshee is playing a song that lacks just a year,genre,or track number conkyBanshee will not display at all.

2. When banshee is playing a song that does have all of the tags the datatypes PP and LE are displaying as question marks.

edit: The above was using the -n option. With the -n option removed #2 still happens. And the #1 scenario with the -n option removed is all unknowns even if some of the tags are known.(screen-shot #3)



Please help me out.

Thanks,

D.

[WiseGuy1020]

the datatypes PP and LE are displaying fine after a reinstall.

But when conkyBanshee comes across a song that does not have all the tags filled out it displays unknown for every datatype.

Thanks for your help. I am using a bunch of your other scripts and they all work perfectly.

D.

[kedde]

I solved the year problem like this:

get the tar.gz file from
https://launchpad.net/~m-buck/+archi...-archive-extra

Edited conkyBanshee.py from the tar.gz after the lines:

                        title = props["name"]
                        album = props["album"]
                        artist = props["artist"]

I added the following code:

                        try:
                            year = str(props["year"])
                            tracknumber = str(props["track-number"])
                            genre = props["genre"]
                        except:
                            year = "?"
                            tracknumber = "?"
                            genre = "?"

and removed these lines:

 
                        year = str(props["year"])
                        tracknumber = str(props["track-number"])
                        genre = props["genre"]

lastly run the setup

( I already had conkyBanshee installed using the apt method, so I just executed the command:

sudo cp conkyBanshee.py /usr/share/conkybanshee/conkyBanshee.py

)

[kaivalagi]

I solved the year problem like this:

get the tar.gz file from
https://launchpad.net/~m-buck/+archi...-archive-extra

Edited conkyBanshee.py from the tar.gz after the lines:

Nice call...I don't use Banshee plus all my music is tagged properly so I need some heads up on the underlying issues from someone he is a little more techy that yourself

Your above fix will work but could result in all ?'s when only once tag isn't available - I suggest for now that you wrap each call with it's own try/catch block...I have a busy weekend so won't get a fix out anytime soon, maybe next week.

Is the underlying issue that any dbus call for tag data that isn't there will throw an exception? If that is the case it sounds like a bug with the Banshee dbus service to me...it needs raising with them I don't think any of the other dbus services I use in python has this behaviour...

[tekniklr]

I'm working on this right now. I'm listening to SomaFM, so the Album and Cover values are blank too. Here is code that seems to be working, (starting at line 142 of conkyBanshee.py)

                        try:
                            title = props["name"]
                        except:
                            title = "?"

                        try:
                            album = props["album"]
                        except:
                            album = "?"

                        try:
                            artist = props["artist"]
                        except:
                            artist = "?"

                        try:
                            year = str(props["year"])
                        except:
                            year = "?"

                        try:
                            tracknumber = str(props["track-number"])
                        except:
                            tracknumber = "?"

                        try:
                            genre = props["genre"]
                        except:
                            genre = "?"

And at line 176 (after the above changes), for the coverart:

                        # get coverart url or file link
                        if "artwork-id" in props:
                            coverart = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~/.cache/album-art/"),str(props["artwork-id"]) +".jpg")
                            if coverart.find("http://") != -1:
                                coverart = ""
                        else:
                            coverart = ""

My apologies if this is messy or just plain wrong. I'm a perl/PHP sort of girl, and this is my first time playing with python. It seems to work, so I figured I'd share!

[kaivalagi]

I'm working on this right now. I'm listening to SomaFM, so the Album and Cover values are blank too.

...

My apologies if this is messy or just plain wrong. I'm a perl/PHP sort of girl, and this is my first time playing with python. It seems to work, so I figured I'd share!

Thanks, code looks okay to me, although I think try/catch block aren't necessary looking at the code again...this sort of thing is better:

if "name" in props:
    title = props["name"]
else:
    title = None

Later on in the code null values are handled based on the --nounknownoutput option, so setting it to None if not available makes sense.

I'm gonna start making the changes you, kedde and WiseGuy1020 highlighted and I'll post the deb package here before publishing so you guys can test it to make sure all is good

Edit: @All users who posted issues, a new deb package and tarball are attached here. The deb package will install on Jaunty (and poss' Intrepid), please test and let me know of any issues. If all is okay a proper package for all Ubuntu versions will be released. Cheers

Edit Again: No response back but I have been running the new conkyBanshee locally all day without issues so I am starting to get the package published soon...3 hrs for a built to start on launchpad

[kaivalagi]

UPDATE

The script has had the following changes made:

• Updated music info retrieval to stop unnecessary exceptions

Package changes can be seen here: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/324925...source.changes

All apt packages are now available and the first post has been updated

Chimo

[bluebyt]

Hi,
The cover doesn't display and the position is not good.

script:

use_xft yes
xftfont Liberation Sans:size=8
override_utf8_locale yes

text_buffer_size 2048
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0
double_buffer yes
no_buffers yes
net_avg_samples 1
cpu_avg_samples 1

own_window_class Conky
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

default_color 2B2B2B
draw_shades no

color0 1E1C1A
color1 E07A1F
color2 1E1C1A

alignment bottom_right
gap_x 25
gap_y 40
minimum_size 182 0
maximum_width 182

imlib_cache_size 0

TEXT
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${goto 32}Uptime: ${alignr}${color2}${uptime}${color}
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${voffset -12}${goto 28}${font Arial Black:size=38}${color2}${time %H}${color}${font}${voffset -28}${font Liberation Sans:style=Bold:size=11}${color2}${time :%M}${time :%S}${color}${font}
${voffset -3}${goto 100}${font Liberation Sans:style=Bold:size=8}${color2}${time %A}${color}${font}
${voffset -1}${goto 100}${time %d %B %Y}
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${voffset -2}${font Liberation Sans:style=Bold:size=8}PHOTO $stippled_hr${font}
${execi 10800 ~/.conky/conkyPhoto.sh}${image /tmp/conkyPhoto.png -s 150x150 -p 20,330}${voffset 142}
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${execi 10 ~/.conky/conkyCover.sh}${execpi 10 ~/.conky/conkyBanshee.py -t ~/.conky/conkyPlayer.template}
${voffset 4}${font Liberation Sans:style=Bold:size=8}WEATHER $stippled_hr${font}
${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan0}
${execpi 10800 ~/.conky/conkyForecast.py --location=CAXX0243 -t ~/.conky/conkyForecast.template}
${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth0}
${execpi 10800 ~/.conky/conkyForecast.py --location=CAXX0243 -t ~/.conky/conkyForecast.template}
${endif}${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route ppp0}
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