Add iTunes now playing segment.

[pklebba]

I wish I could add now playing segment from iTunes on OS X. I found gist in Google with segment what shows current music, but I don't know how to install it (or even test it). Can you enlighten me?

[pklebba]

Nevermind, I found a solution and I tested that gist. It was needed just a little fix with converting float variable (AppleScript returns "float" with comma instead of dot, so I just replaced "," to "." and converted to float). This is fixed script, just add it to /powerline/segments/common/players.py.

class iTunesPlayerSegment(PlayerSegment):
    def get_player_status(self, pl):
        status_delimiter = '-~`/='
        ascript = '''
            tell application "System Events"
                set process_list to (name of every process)
            end tell
            if process_list contains "iTunes" then
                tell application "iTunes"
                    if player state is playing or player state is paused then
                        set t_title to name of current track
                        set t_artist to artist of current track
                        set t_album to album of current track
                        set t_duration to duration of current track
                        set t_elapsed to player position
                        set t_state to player state
                        return t_title & "{0}" & t_artist & "{0}" & t_album & "{0}" & t_elapsed & "{0}" & t_duration & "{0}" & t_state
                    end if
                end tell
            end if
        '''.format(status_delimiter)
        now_playing = asrun(pl, ascript)
        if not now_playing:
            return
        now_playing = now_playing.split(status_delimiter)
        if len(now_playing) != 6:
            return

        now_playing[4] = now_playing[4].replace(',', '.')
        title, artist = now_playing[0], now_playing[1]
        title = title[0:25] + "…" if len(title) > 25 else title
        artist = artist[0:15] + "…" if len(artist) > 15 else artist
        state = _convert_state(now_playing[5])
        total = _convert_seconds(now_playing[4])
        elapsed = _convert_seconds(float(now_playing[4]) - float(now_playing[4]))
        return {
            'title': title,
            'artist': now_playing[1],
            'album': now_playing[2],
            'total': total,
            'elapsed': elapsed,
            'state': state
        }

itunes = with_docstring(iTunesPlayerSegment(),
('''Return iTunes now playing information.
Requires ``osascript``.
{0}
''').format(_common_args.format('itunes')))

And it looks that . I hope it will help someone 😄

[eliath]

Somehow I still can't get itunes now playing to show up in my tmux statusline.

1. I append the above script to powerline/segments/common/players.py.
2. In my tmux theme file:

{
  "segments": {
    "right": [
      {
        "function": "powerline.segments.common.players.itunes",
        "name": "player"
      },
      ...
    ],
    ...
  }
}

3. powerline-lint shows no errors.
4. powerline-config tmux setup (with log_level=DEBUG) shows nothing related to the player.

I have made other changes to my tmux theme and see them reflected in my statusbar, but still no itunes now playing.
I tested the applescript from the above script to make sure it returns the desired string, which seems to be ok.

Am I missing something in my powerline configuration?

[ZyX-I]

@eliath Did you restart the powerline daemon? “I … see them reflected in my statusbar” is not relevant: actually powerline is supposed to reload its configuration after changes and this sometimes work. But it won’t reload any python code.

[eliath]

Yep, that was it. After reloading my tmux config and restarting the daemon, everything works as expected. Thanks!

[ZyX-I]

This was merged some time ago from #1732.