playerdo 0.2

Control various media players from a single command line interface.

So you use several media players, sometimes at the same time (like ‘shell-fm’ running in a terminal, and something else with a GUI), and sometimes you like to try out new media players for a while. And you want the the media buttons on your keyboard to Do The Right Thing without having to reprogram keyboard shortcuts. This package is a solution to that problem.

You can set up keyboard shortcuts to map the play/pause button to ‘player_do playpause’ etc, and player_do generally does the Right Thing.

The currently supported programs can be seen by running ‘player_do help’. To add more supported programs, see the existing code in the ‘backends’ directory. Patches gratefully received!

Many players support the MPRIS DBUS protocol, and will be supported without a specific backend. If you only need support for those players, consider using MPRIS-remote.

Change log

Version 0.2

• Added support for Banshee.

• Implemented ‘test’ command where needed.

• Small bug fixes.

Version 0.1

• Initial release.

• Support for any MPRIS player, shell-fm, mocp and rhythmbox.