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By cs-cam (Desklet Author), on Sat Jun 11 03:37:26 2005: mpdcontroller.

Post here for any help/questions/suggestions for the mpdcontroller desklet :)

By MrGreen (User), on Sat Jun 11 07:03:20 2005: mpdcontroller rocks!!.

Maybe add some extra options to config ie path to icons/theme, display song artist & title only ...

Anyway mpdcontroller just rocks!!! 8)

By cs-cam (Desklet Author), on Sat Jun 11 19:07:44 2005: Re: mpdcontroller rocks!!.

MrGreen wrote:

Maybe add some extra options to config ie path to icons/theme, display song artist & title only ...

Anyway mpdcontroller just rocks!!! 8)

Sounds like a good idea, I've gotta go to work shortly, I just packaged up 0.0.2 which includes some stuff added by ZeroDivide which is pretty cool and a config option for the font colour. I've got a couple of hours tomorrow morning I'lll see what I can get done then :)

By ZeroDivide (Desklet Author), on Mon Jun 13 00:43:47 2005.

I just wanted to point out that the 0.0.3 release has a typo on line 152 that stops the Start_MPD_Client menu option from working.

It should be
elif item == 'Start_MPD_Client':

By cs-cam (Desklet Author), on Mon Jun 13 17:52:11 2005.

Ooops! I couild've sworn I fixed that! It's fixed in the version I'm running here ;) Ahh well, new archive it uploaded at the same URL.

By Bitpicker (User), on Tue Jun 21 05:05:53 2005.

If I understand it correctly, mpdcontroller and mpd work with playlists of mp3s only - is that correct? I am looking for a solution which plays CDs and displays the CDDB data on the desktop. Is there such a thing, or does mpdcontroller actually do it, too?

Robin

By cs-cam (Desklet Author), on Tue Jun 21 07:43:23 2005.

You are quite right in saying that mpd (and mpdcontroller) only work with playlists of files on your disk to the best of my knowledge. Your best bet would be using something like BMP or any audio player that will play CDs and then look for a desklet(maybe a gdesklet) that displays info from that program. CornerXMMS is a nice gdesklet that will do what you want, or if you use KDE then amorok and a SuperKaramba script will do what you want as well :)

By Bitpicker (User), on Tue Jun 21 18:19:20 2005.

ConrnerXMMS looks quite nice - though I really like the idea of the hand-written font on the desktop listing the tracks. Maybe that's an idea for a new adesklet? I know I have tried installing gdesklets before, and failed miserably. I'm not using KDE btw., but XFce.

Robin

By andrewski (User), on Wed Jul 20 23:01:27 2005.

My desklet always displays 'MPD is not running' when it most definitely is. host and port are indeed set correctly, also. What gives? (Also, I had to change urxvt to xterm because I don't have urxvt; seems an odd default. But running 'xterm -e ncmpc' works to bring up my playlist in a new term.)

Code:

# -*- coding: ASCII -*-
id0 = {'align': 'left',
 'font': 'trebuc/10',
 'font_color': (0, 0, 0, 255),
 'host': 'localhost',
 'mpd_client': 'xterm -e ncmpc',
 'port': 6600,
 'width': 250}

By Babets (User), on Mon Mar 6 03:47:56 2006.

I have to set the pythonpath for the python mpdclient as requested here (syfou tell me to post here).
Where I have to set the pythonpath? What I have to write?

P.S. Excuse me for my bad english.

By cs-cam (Desklet Author), on Mon Mar 6 19:26:26 2006.

http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html#SECTION008110000000000000000

That seems to explain what is required but I've never had to use it before so I don't have any experience to back it up. I just experimented here and it seems to work fine, how are you setting the variable? You have this in your ~/.bash_profile?

Code:


export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:/home/babets/py-mpd/lib/python2.3/site-packages"

By rights, that should work fine :)

By Babets (User), on Tue Mar 7 12:16:25 2006.

Now I have correctly set the pythonpath, but i obtain the same error :cry:
It does not import the mpdclient.

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