DBUS-support, current playing, tracklist

[holber]

I want to propose to include support for DBUS according to MPRIS-standaed. This would allow other applications and scripts to interface and read current information from MIXXX. A simple python script would be able to read current playing from MIXXX as below is demonstrated with both Banshee and Clementine players.

--- Banshee reading current title ----
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import dbus

bus = dbus.SessionBus()
banshee = bus.get_object("org.bansheeproject.Banshee", "/org/bansheeproject/Banshee/PlayerEngine")

currentTrack = banshee.GetCurrentTrack()
print "Current track:", currentTrack[u'name'].encode('utf-8')
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And

--- Clementine reading current title and 4 titles down the list ---
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import dbus

bus = dbus.SessionBus()
player = bus.get_object('org.mpris.clementine', '/Player')
tracklist = bus.get_object('org.mpris.clementine', '/TrackList')

currentsong = tracklist.GetCurrentTrack() #integer, current song playing
playlistlength = tracklist.GetLength() #integer, playlist lengths

for i in range(currentsong,currentsong+5):
   print "Track",i,":", tracklist.GetMetadata(i)[u'title']
   i = i+1
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Kind regards
Mikael Holber - Sweden

[Daniel Schürmann (daschuer)]

Hi Mikael,

Thank you for the bug report. This would be really a nice addition.
You may copy the useful information from this bug to the original.

Do you have fun to add the DBus support to Mixxx yourself?
This should be not too hard, since Qt offers a good DBus interface.
Just ask for help.

Thank you,

Daniel

[holber (mikael-holber)]

I will ask my partner Horia for help. He has experience with QT.

Kind regards
Mikael

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Daniel Schürmann <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1326653 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1326653
>
> Hi Mikael,
>
> Thank you for the bug report. This would be really a nice addition.
> You may copy the useful information from this bug to the original.
>
> Do you have fun to add the DBus support to Mixxx yourself?
> This should be not too hard, since Qt offers a good DBus interface.
> Just ask for help.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Daniel
>
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1326653
> Report current track via MPRIS DBus interface
>
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[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/7831