fophillips dot org‣ May 28th, 2008‣ Amarok in dzen

I use this little script with dzen and dmplex to show the current song info in a little bar at the top of my right-hand screen. You need to make sure you have dcop up and running.

#!/bin/zsh
while true; do
  ARTIST=$(dcop amarok player artist)
  ALBUM=$(dcop amarok player album)
  TITLE=$(dcop amarok player title)
  SONG="${TITLE} - ${ARTIST} (${ALBUM})"

  CURTIME=$(dcop amarok player trackCurrentTime)
  (( CURMINS = $CURTIME / 60 ))
  (( CURSECS = $CURTIME % 60 ))

  TOTTIME=$(dcop amarok player trackTotalTime)
  (( TOTMINS = $TOTTIME / 60 ))
  (( TOTSECS = $TOTTIME % 60 ))

  MEDIA="${SONG} [$(printf '%02d:%02d/%02d:%02d' 
         $CURMINS $CURSECS $TOTMINS $TOTSECS)]"
    echo "2 ${MEDIA}"
    sleep 1s
done