Anyplayer

Interacts with the currently running music player. Supports iTunes Mac, iTunes Windows, Spotify Mac, Rdio Mac, MPD, Rhythmbox, Amarok and XMMS2.

Install

sh $ gem install anyplayer

Use it in your terminal

sh $ anyplayer artist # artist of the current track New Order $ anyplayer track # name of the current track Blue Monday $ anyplayer album Power, Corruption & Lies $ anyplayer next # changes track forward $ anyplayer prev # backward $ anyplayer playpause # pauses if it is playing, plays if it's paused $ anyplayer play $ anyplayer pause $ anyplayer voldown # put the volume somewhat up $ anyplayer volup # down $ anyplayer volume # prints the volume percentage 100 $ anyplayer vote # votes to go to next song (default number of votes is 5) $ anyplayer name iTunes $ anyplayer launched && echo "a player is running" || echo "nothing running" a player is running

Or in Ruby

In your Gemfile:

rb # Interact with the current music player gem "anyplayer"

In your code:

```ruby require “anyplayer” player = Anyplayer::Selector.new.player

player.launched? # => true player.name # => Rythmbox player.artist # => “The Avalanches” player.track # => “Frontier Psychiatrist” # … ```

Or in a browser

With the So Nice Web interface:

Contribute!

All contributions are welcome! Head to the Github issues to report bugs, questions or code. Also, check out CONTRIBUTING.md.

Here a few useful commands while developping:

sh $ ruby -Ilib bin/anyplayer # Use the anyplayer command-line from source $ bin/rake test # Launch tests $ bin/rake install # Install from source $ bin/rake console # Launch console

License

MIT