Comments on: Rhythmbox from the command line

By: Vlad

Vlad — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:59:05 +0000

You can also use this script

#!/bin/bash

playing=`rhythmbox-client –no-start –print-playing`

if [ -n "$playing" ]
then
echo $playing
else
echo “Not playing”
fi

and use execi to execute that script. It doesn’t really add functionality, it basically just gives output without having to have rhythmbox on. It looks prettier if you’re not the kind of person who always has rhythmbox on.

By: Scott Esters

Scott Esters — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:04:34 +0000

Also thanks for sharing this.

By: Lian

Lian — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:13:30 +0000

Thanks
Anyway to check if rhythmbox is running? E.g. I want to hide “now playing” when rhythmbox is closed.

By: Cello

Cello — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:56:03 +0000

Thanks for share this,love linux,it’s more powerful than win

By: ebay

ebay — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:16:23 +0000

Thanks for your tips but I don’t know if I will use them right away. This stuff seems to be way over my head! But we all appreciate you sharing freely what you know.

By: Coupons

Coupons — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:30:42 +0000

Thanks for your tips!

By: art murphy

art murphy — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:28:41 +0000

I have a tight space for my conky so I just want the first 22 bytes of the song title followed by ellipses. Also I check first to see if rhythmbox is active. Cheers.

${if_running rhythmbox}${color #A7D7BB}${exec /usr/bin/rhythmbox-client –no-start –no-present –print-playing|cut -b -22}…$endif

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:35:49 +0000

Jeje maybe Linux is just not for you.

The conversation here is on how to have the Rhythmbox player information show on the desktop. There is just no way to do something like that on a Windows system. Yes, it takes some command line magic to make this work. It IS possible to do this with Linux, it is NOT possible to do it with Windows.

Maybe you have not installed Linux recently. The average person can now install Linux and have more eye candy than windows, without ever touching the command line. If you want more apps, it is even easier than in Windows, just pick off a list what you want and it is installed.

Of course if you know the command line you can always do something like

apt-get install flashplayer-nonfree rhythmbox openssh-server x11vnc

and in one shot install all the software that does not come with a default install.

By: Jeje

Jeje — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:50:21 +0000

Thats the reason why I never started working with Linux. It´s takes to long time, to install every software from the command line, put my wlan to work and other stuff.. XP runs for me much faster, in the way for installing something, drivers, etc.

By: daveg

daveg — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:03:52 +0000

Ah nice one Adam. I did notice that too but since I always have it running, I didn’t bother doing anything about it. Thanks for the tip!

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:34:28 +0000

Thanks that was useful.

I found that if I used your line then rhythmbox would open if it wasn’t already, which I didn’t really want. Mine looks like this now. This gives the album title on a line below too:
Now Playing:
${exec /usr/bin/rhythmbox-client –no-start –no-present –print-playing-format “%ta – %tt”}
${exec /usr/bin/rhythmbox-client –no-start –no-present –print-playing-format “%at”}