ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!

[Leonardo Franchi]

On Saturday 09 May 2009 01:03:07 Bill Moseley wrote:
> A year ago I setup a client-server using Perl to remotely run Amarok.
> Worked perfectly.  Now I'm running Amarok 2.0.2 on Ubuntu and when the
> script tries to connect to Amarok via DCOP I get:
>
>     ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!
>
> I'm using the DCOP::Amarok::Player Perl module.
>
> This sound familiar to anyone?

Yes. Amarok 2.x no longer uses DCOP. Along with the rest of KDE, Amarok has 
switched to the DBus interprocess communicaton protocol. Amarok implements the 
MPRIS spec for media players, it can be seen  here:

http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/MPRIS

cheers,
leo

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