CurrentSong for Spotify

[x1sc0]

I've created a version of currentsong for spotify under wine based on http://github.com/pilt/spotify.
i had some problem to do using the python file because it doesn't work anymore so I decided to used the shell script. I tried to do my best but i'm sure it's not the most efficient. Anyway I think it does what it has to do.
Please try it and let me know if you find any problem.

BTW, if you don't have an account yet, you can sign up here:  http://www.nower.se/spotify/

adéu

[C10uD]

xisco, get rid of the script and we can have a deal

[x1sc0]

Ok, I passed it to python and  surprisingly it works !!! I'm proud of myself.
Enjoy it.

* Spotify.py is placed in currentsong folder

[C10uD]

great, applied

[jaansson]

Oh, this seem awesome! But I can't seem to get it working. I've tried putting this Spotify.py in the .config/emeseme/plugin folder and the same/currentsong folder AND the /usr/shared/emesene/pluginsomething/currentSong folder. I also tried throwing in the .diff file. I've been reloading the plugins and stuff, but I must be doing something wrong. Would appreciate some help Oh, and I used the files that you uploaded the second time.

[C10uD]

download emesene svn and it will work out of the box

otherwise apply the diff AND move the spotify plugin to plugins_base/currentSong

[karasu]

I just wanted to say thanks to x1sc0 !!!

It works perfectly well...

Thanks!!!

[karasu]

Hi!

I want to propose a little fix, as I get some white spaces before and after song title and an ending " that makes current song plugin not find covers.

(attached)

[arielj]

applied!

[ukblacknight]

Great work!  I looked into implementing this myself, but it seemed quite hacky so I couldn't be bothered

There seems to be a performance issue though - emesene seems slightly unresponsive when the music plugin is enabled with spotify, such as it takes half a second or so for characters to appear when typing in the conversation windows, and so on.

I'm guessing it could be hard to get feedback on this since only a few countries have Spotify, so I'll try my best to help solve this

[ukblacknight]

RE: Performance

Code:

        strout = os.popen("xwininfo -root -tree", "r")
       
        for line in strout.readlines():
            if "(\"spotify.exe\" \"Wine\")" in line:
                if "has no name" not in line:
                    if "\"Spotify\": (\"spotify.exe\" \"Wine\")" in line:
                        self.artist = ''
                        self.title = ''
                        return True
                    else:
                        aux = line

Could this loop be the culprit?

[karasu]

 Well, perhaps this is the problem:

Code:

os.popen("xwininfo -root -tree", "r")

This is running xwininfo each time we want to check if song has changed.

Anyway, I didn't notice that emesene was slower using spotify.... :S

[Gizzmo]

Now that there is a native Spotify client for Linux (http://www.spotify.com/se/download/previews/), its time to update this script or make a new one. Can it be done?