Write totem plugin.
I recently prefer totem-2.30 on debian sid to listen music.However totem seems lack of an ability which notifies the music title to GNOME notification area.
Then ,I decided to write the plugin to notify the meta-data (included title,artist,etc...) of music. I found using python make it very easy task! So I memorize here.
1) mkdir ~/.local/share/totem/plugins/metadata_notifier
2) cd ~/.local/share/totem/plugins/metadata_notifier
3) put the following source, named as "metadata_notifier.py"
## Metadata notify plugin ## Author nozzy123nozzy <nozzy123nozzy_at_gmail_dot_com> ## Copyright: nozzy123nozzy ## License: GPL import totem import pynotify class metadata_notifier(totem.Plugin): def __init__(self): totem.Plugin.__init__(self) self.notifier_ident="Totem Metadata notification" pynotify.init(self.notifier_ident) self.old_notify_string="" def activate(self,totem): totem.connect("metadata-updated", self.do_metadata) def deactivate(self,totem): pynotify.uninit(); def do_metadata(self, totem, artist, title, album, num): notify_string="" if artist: notify_string+=artist+"\n" if title: notify_string+=title+"\n" if album: notify_string+=album+"\n" if len(notify_string) != 0: if totem.is_playing() and \ (notify_string != self.old_notify_string): self.do_notify(notify_string) self.old_notify_string=notify_string def do_notify(self, notify_string): notify=pynotify.Notification("Totem",notify_string,"/usr/share/pixmaps/totem.xpm") notify.set_timeout(10000) notify.show()
4) put the plugin definition named as "metadata_notifier.totem-plugin",
[Totem Plugin] Loader=python Module=metadata_notifier IAge=1 Name=Metadata Notifier Description=Plugin for sending notification of currently playing music to gnome nitifier daemon. Author=nozzy123nozzy <nozzy123nozzy_at_gmail_dot_com> Copyright=nozzy123nozzy Website=http://d.hatena.ne.jp/nozzy123nozzy/
5) aptitude install python-notify
6) invoke totem.
7) select menu of plugins.
8) 'Metadata Notifier' is shown. Then, put check-mark on it.
9) start play music.
If music data has meta-data, it is shown on notification area on GNOME desktop,
like below,
Tips:
[1] If meta-data has some cp932(or shift-jis) code, putting 'GST_TAG_ENCODING=CP932' to your environmental variable is covenient.It can help show the correct Japanese titles,artists.
Have fun!