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playerdo 0.5.1

Control various media players from a single command line interface.

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So you use several media players, sometimes at the same time (like 'shell-fm' running in a terminal, and something else with a GUI), and sometimes you like to try out new media players for a while. And you want the the media buttons on your keyboard to Do The Right Thing without having to reprogram keyboard shortcuts. This package is a solution to that problem.

You can set up keyboard shortcuts to map the play/pause button to 'player_do playpause' etc, and player_do generally does the Right Thing.

There is a command 'install_gnome' to help set up keyboard shortcuts on GNOME.

The currently supported programs can be seen by running 'player_do help'. Those that have been tested include the following:

  • Audacious
  • Amarok
  • Banshee
  • Clementine
  • Exaile
  • Guayadeque
  • moc
  • Quodlibet
  • Rhythmbox
  • shell-fm

Many other players will be supported due to support for the MPRIS DBUS protocol, without a specific backend. If you only need support for those players, consider using MPRIS-remote.

To add more supported programs, see the existing code in the 'backends' directory. Patches gratefully received!

Source code: http://bitbucket.org/spookylukey/playerdo/src

Bug tracking: http://bitbucket.org/spookylukey/playerdo/issues

Change log

Version 0.5.1

  • Fixed some Python 3 incompatibilities
  • Fixed crash if DBus library is not installed
  • Fixed support for newer version of Banshee

Version 0.5

  • Added support for quodlibet
  • Fixed support for Guayadeque

Version 0.4

  • Added support for MPRIS2 players
  • Added install_gnome command to help set up keyboard shortcuts on GNOME
  • Eliminated dependency on shc.hs for the shell-fm backend
  • Various bug fixes/optimisations

Version 0.3

  • Fixed fatal packaging bug!
  • Improved help text for MPRIS players (lists currently running players).
  • Made dbus dependency optional
  • Support for Python 3 via 2to3.

Version 0.2

  • Added support for Banshee.
  • Implemented 'test' command where needed.
  • Small bug fixes.

Version 0.1

  • Initial release.
  • Support for any MPRIS player, shell-fm, mocp and rhythmbox.
 
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playerdo-0.5.1.tar.gz (md5) Source 2011-11-09 9KB 137