ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

from a terminal, try:

"qdbus org.mpris.amarok" <- List dbus objects in amarok

"qdbus org.mpris.amarok /Player"  <- List methods on player object

"qdbus org.mpris.amarok /Player Pause" <- CAll method "Pause" on
player object hence pausing amarok

- Nikolaj



On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 01:05 +0100, Leonardo Franchi wrote:
>> 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
>
> Sorry for the very late reply, I am finally getting around to looking
> into this, almost six months later. I read this page, but it really
> doesn't tell me what I need to know. What I want to do is replace my
> DCOP remote control script with something that works for Amarok 2.2 .
> What I had was this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> dcop --user greg amarok player $*
>
> This meant I could just do
>
> $ ssh musicmachine scriptname pause
>
> from any other machine in the house, and it would pause the music. This
> is the kind of thing I want to do. While the methods and XML syntax are
> described on the above web page, nowhere does it tell me how to actually
> use it to control Amarok. Anywhere I can find info on that?
>
> Thanks,
> --Greg
>
>
>>
>> cheers,
>> leo
>>
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>> leonardo.franchi at tufts.edu                 The KDE Project
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