Comment on Pianobar on Mac OSX by David Fritz

David Fritz — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:55:44 +0000

Commenting on your growlnotify suggestion. A few years ago I made a piano bar script that downloads the album art and uses that as the growlnotify image.

It does require that you make the correct directories…

This one should already exist:
mkdir ~/.config

If you’re using the auto-login function of pianobar this should already exist:
mkdir ~/.config/pianobar

This should be a new directory:
mkdir ~/.config/pianobar/art

This command will add the communication between pianobar and growl:
echo ‘event_command = $HOME/.config/pianobar/pianobar-notify.rb’ >> ~/.config/pianobar/config

These commands will make the proper directories, assuming they do not exist. If you’re using the config file to auto-login then the “art” directory should be the only directory missing. The “echo” commands add the event_command function which will send a trigger to growlnotify everytime a new song starts.

Here is the ruby script that must be named pianobar-notify.rb and placed in $HOME/.config/pianobar/ in order to work properly,


#!/usr/bin/ruby
trigger = ARGV.shift
if trigger == 'songstart'
	songinfo = {}
	STDIN.each_line { |line| songinfo.store(*line.chomp.split('=',2))}
	`rm ~/.config/pianobar/art/*.* 2> /dev/null`
	`wget -q --directory-prefix=$HOME/.config/pianobar/art/ "#{songinfo['coverArt']}"`
	img=`ls $HOME/.config/pianobar/art/`
	`growlnotify -t "Now Playing:" -m "#{songinfo['title']}\nby #{songinfo['artist']}" --image $HOME/.config/pianobar/art/#{img}`
end

there is probably a lot easier way of explaining all this but I realized I am at work right now and should probably get back to it...

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