Get current song details from other app

[snippins]

Versions

tizonia 0.14.

Installation Method Used

Bintray debs

Description

I would love to make a lyrics app for tizonia and need to get the song detail, thus, tizonia need a way to export the current song detail somehow.

What do you think about this?

And thank you for this great great app. 👍

[tizonia]

Hi!, thanks for getting in touch.

I think this is a great idea. It would be awesome to have a lyrics option that could work with tizonia.

So right now the only RPC option available is MPRIS v2 (https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/), out of which, only the following interfaces are implemented (see #66):

• org.mpris.MediaPlayer2
• org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player

The Player interface contains a method called 'metadata' that would provide the information that you need. However, there is currently a bug that prevents it from being usable (see #433).

There is a Bash script called 'tizonia-remote' that allows you some basic control of the program, using the D-BUS. This is not distributed in the Bintray debs, but to try it, just download it from there and make it executable:
https://github.com/tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il/blob/master/player/tools/tizonia-remote.in

The D-BUS crash #433 is on my list for v0.15.0, so hopefully, I may have a fix for it soon.

But talking about RPC options, just to let you know, that going forward, I have plans to add a JSON-RPC interface to programmatically control Tizonia and give access to all its features from external programs (e.g. a REPL command-line cli, remote UIs, etc). But at the moment I'm busy with Pandora support, which is my main goal for the next release.

Having said all of that, I am definitely more than happy to discuss interfacing ideas or contributions of any kind in these areas.

[Typositoire]

Hey I just found this project and I wanted to have it integrated with Polybar. RPC would be awesome!