Amarok Now Playing

[Jamwa]

Having been frustrated by the existing now-playing scripts, I wrote this one for myself. Tested on Amarok 2.2 and Kopete 0.80., feel free to extend it to Pidgin (note attached, I dont use pidgin so I cannot test it yet).

A downloadable tar installer script is also available.

#!/bin/bash
#===================================================================================
#
#         FILE: amarok_now_playing
#
#        USAGE: amarok_now_playing [ > logfile]
#
# DESCRIPTION: Changes your status message in pidgin and/or
#               Kopete to the song you are currently listening to in Amarok.
#
#      OPTIONS: see function ’usage’ below
# REQUIREMENTS: --- Amarok 2.2, Kopete 0.70
#         LICENCE: GNU GPL
#        NOTES: ---
#       AUTHOR: Arthur Buliva, arthurbuliva [at] fedoraproject [dot] org
#      COMPANY: Arthur Buliva
#      VERSION: 1.0
#      CREATED: 26.05.2009 - 16:17:51
#     REVISION: 16.10.2009 - 12:32:36
#===================================================================================

STARTUP="qdbus org.kde.amarok / Identity"
ALLOWED_AMAROK_VERSION="2.2"
ALLOWED_KOPETE_VERSION="0.80"
PIDGIN="`kopete --version`"

#Messages to display if Amarok is not playing any song

MESSAGES=(
"Quiet",
"Amarok is Quiet",
"Long live KDE"
)

#Test for Amarok
echo -n "Checking Amarok version... "
a=`$STARTUP | cut -c 8-`
if [[ "$a" =~ "${ALLOWED_AMAROK_VERSION}" ]]
then
    echo "Amarok $a [ OK ] "
else
    echo -n $a;tput setaf 1;tput bold;echo -n "     [ FAILED ] ";tput sgr0;echo "Make sure that you are running Amarok 1.4 | `date +%b-%d-%Y\ %T` ";
    logger "$0 failed to start. Detected Amarok $a but requires Amarok $ALLOWED_AMAROK_VERSION"
    exit;
fi


#Test for Kopete
echo -n "Checking Kopete version... "
if [[ "$PIDGIN" =~ "${ALLOWED_KOPETE_VERSION}" ]]
then
    echo "Kopete $PIDGIN [ OK ] "
else
  echo -n $a;tput setaf 1;tput bold;echo -ne "\nERROR: ";tput sgr0;echo "This script has been tested on Kopete 0.70 only | `date +%b-%d-%Y\ %T` "
  logger "$0 failed to start. Detected Kopete $PIDGIN but requires Kopete 0.70"
  exit
fi

updateStatus()
{

    if [[ "`$STARTUP`" != "" ]]
    then

    SONG_TITLE="qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata"
    ARTIST="qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata"

    KOPETE_STATUS='qdbus org.kde.kopete /Kopete'
    
    if [[ "`$KOPETE_STATUS`" == "" ]]
    then
	tput setaf 1;tput bold;echo -n "ERROR: ";tput sgr0;echo "Kopete is not running. This script will terminate | `date +%b-%d-%Y\ %T` "
	logger "$0 terminated because Kopete is not running"
	exit
    fi

    if [[ "`$SONG_TITLE  | grep title: | cut -c 8-`" != "" ]]
    then
	TITLE="♫ `$SONG_TITLE  | grep title: | cut -c 8-` by `$ARTIST  | grep artist: | cut -c 9- `";
	logger "$TITLE";
	echo $TITLE;
	#Pidgin
	#`/usr/bin/purple-remote "setstatus?status=available&message=$TITLE"`
	#Kopete
	qdbus org.kde.kopete /Kopete  org.kde.Kopete.setIdentityOnlineStatus "Online" "$TITLE"
	sleep 10;
	updateStatus
    else
	
	TITLE=${MESSAGES[ $[ ( $RANDOM % 1 )  + 1 ] - 1  ])};
	echo $TITLE;
	#Pidgin
	#`/usr/bin/purple-remote "setstatus?status=available&message=$TITLE"`
	#Kopete
	qdbus org.kde.kopete /Kopete  org.kde.Kopete.setIdentityOnlineStatus "Online" "$TITLE"
	sleep 30;
	updateStatus
    fi

    else
	tput setaf 1;tput bold;echo -n "ERROR: ";tput sgr0;echo "Could not connect to DCOP Server | `date +%b-%d-%Y` "
	logger "$0 Could not connect to DCOP Server"
	exit
    fi
}

updateStatus