Banshee

From Remuco

Introduction

Remuco has basic support for Banshee. That means Banshee integration is realized by a basic player proxy.

Basic player proxies (BPPs) are the fast and easy way to integrate a media player into Remuco. BPPs are simple text files located in ~/.config/remuco and suffixed with .bpp. For Banshee it is the file ~/.config/remuco/Banshee.bpp. This files describes how to interact with Banshee on a command line basis, i.e. which shell commands to execute in order to control Banshee or to get information about Banshee's state.

Installation

Create the file ~/.config/remuco/Banshee.bpp and fill it with following content:

 
[config]
[commands]
 
running = pidof banshee
 
playpause = banshee --toggle-playing 
next = banshee --next
prev = banshee --previous
 
playing = [ `banshee --query-status | awk '{ print $2 }'` -eq 1 ] && echo yes || echo false 
 
plob = ARTIST=`banshee --query-artist | sed -e "s/^[^ ]*: *\\(.*\\)$/\\1/"` ; TITLE=`banshee --query-title | sed -e "s/^[^ ]*: *\\(.*\\)$/\\1/"`; echo "$ARTIST - $TITLE"
 
# The command line interface of Banshee gives no arguments to set the volume to
# a certain value. A work-around for volume control is to control the master
# volume.
# If you use ALSA and if the tool 'amixer' is installed, you can enable remote
# volume control by uncommenting the lines below. Maybe you have to tweak
# them - see 'man amixer' for more information.
 
#volume-set = amixer -c 0 set Master Playback ${PARAM}%
 
#volume = amixer -c 0 get Master | grep -m 1 "\\[[0-9]\\+%\\]" | sed -r -e "s/^.*\\[([0-9]+)%\\].*$/\\1/"
 

Usage

The player proxy gets active on next server startup. You can (re)start the server with the following commands:

$ remuco --restart