Tormod Ravnanger Landet on 24 Oct 2008 09:35 pm
Full screen music info
I’ve written a short program to show the currently playing song in a full screen view to avoid having to walk over to the computer when I want to know what the current song is called. The Squeezebox has mostly made this obsolete as I now just look at the screen on the hand held Squeezebox Controller, but it’s still nice to have once in a while so I decided to put it up for you to play with if you find it useful. it looks like this in full screen mode:
Supported programs are Amarok (pre KDE4/QT4), Spotify and SqueezeCenter. You probably need to run some sort of Unix OS, at least for the Amarok support to work (it uses dcop from the command line).
The program with a short description can be found here: full screen music info.
Tags: Code, Musikk, Squeezebox
on 30 Oct 2010 at 13:05 1.Lon said …
Considered using last.fm API to get cover as well? Like http://code.google.com/p/spotify-notify/
on 30 Oct 2010 at 21:20 2.Tormod Ravnanger Landet said …
Hmm, that’s a good idea. I could most likely get the currently playing song from there as well – then the program specific part of the script could be removed.
It will not happen soon though. With the ability to stream directly from WiMP to Squezeebox I seldom keep the PC on for playing music.