amarok-lcdproc 0.5

[Torben Keßler]

Name: amarok-lcdproc
Version: 0.5
Type: Amarok Script
Depend: 
License: GPL
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=46139

Description:
 amarok-lcdproc 0.5 / 07.11.07


About:
Amarok Script for displaying meta tags on a LCD
through LCDd (lcdproc).
You can choose between these meta-infos provided
by amarok what is to be displayed on each row:
"album", "artist", "bitrate", "comment",
"currentTime", "genre", "nowPlaying", "title",
"totalTime", "track", "type", "year". Furthermore
you can choose a clock.
If you want somewhere something displayed like
"artist - title" you could use the keyword
"nowPlaying" or instead enter "artist, - ,title".
It is important to use the "," as delimiter as it
won't work otherwise. The keywords you can use are
album (for album), artist (for artist), nowPlaying
(for artist - title), title (for title) and
totalTime (for the duration of the song if the
amarok is playing, otherwise there will be "pause"
if amarok is paused and left blank if amarok is
stopped)
The configuration-file is a commented xml-file,
which - for now - has to be edited by yourself
without a GUI. You can find it in
"~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/scripts/amarok-lcdproc/"
and is called "amarok-lcdproc.xml".
The default will look like this:
"title"
"artist"
"album"
"currentTime"/"totalTime"  "clock"



Usage:
Start your lcdproc-server, start the script,
perhaps take a look at the configuration-file, be
happy.



Dependencies:

Amarok 1.4
Ruby 1.8
lcdproc 0.5.0




ToDo:

add a graphical configuration dialog
fixing some encoding-problems with some special
characters 



Thanks:
Sven Jordan (info at s-jordan.de) for the code for
Artist/Title-slicing and the change concerning the
'/' in the status view


Author:
Torben Kessler (sir_tyrann at gmx.de)


Changelog:
 
Changelog:
Version 0.5 / 07.11.2007
Configuration-file now in XML-format
Improved possibilities of configuring the output
Added support for more amarok-dcop-commands
removed temporarily graphical configuration-dialog
Version 0.3.1 / 28.05.2007
Minor change concerning the '/' between
currenttime and totaltime
Version 0.3 / 27.05.2007
Detects if Title = (Artist) - (Title) and displays
it as Artist = (Artist), Title = (Title)
Scrolling customizable
Version 0.2 / 08.10.2006
Rearranged code to make it more flexible and
faster
Version 0.1.1 / 22.09.2006
Fixed a bug, where a dcop-process ran amok
Version 0.1 / 22.09.2006
Initial release