On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Ed Schouten <ed <at> 80386.nl> wrote:

Hello,

* Schneider <dudektria <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder if it's possible to get information about what I'm playing, to put
> on a conkyrc or something. Herrie stores this kind of info, puts on a file
> or something?

The latest Herrie snapshot has DBus-support, so if we would add this, we
should do this through DBus. Unfortunately I'm *very* busy lately (work,
school, etc). Any volunteers?

--
 Ed Schouten <ed <at> 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

I've attached a patch that adds support for this using DBus. I think just locking the GUI mutex should be enough, but I'm not sure if the song information is updated in other places? Here are some examples of using it:

Nothing playing:

% dbus-send --dest=info.herrie.Herrie --print-reply /info/herrie/Herrie info.herrie.Herrie.getSong
method return sender=:1.38 -> dest=:1.40 reply_serial=2
   string ""

Something playing:

% dbus-send --dest=info.herrie.Herrie --print-reply /info/herrie/Herrie info.herrie.Herrie.getSong
method return sender=:1.38 -> dest=:1.41 reply_serial=2
   string "J. S. Bach - Menuett G-Dur, BWV Anh. 116"

Feel free to change it if you like,

Steve