Add DBus interface to stock music player [released]

asked 2013-12-24 17:40:27 +0200

Elleo

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updated 2014-12-18 18:04:15 +0200

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I'm working on porting Rockwatch, an app which allows users to connect their phones with Pebble smart watches, to Sailfish, however currently the music player doesn't appear to have any way to control it externally (one of the watch's functions). So a DBus service like that offered by MAFW on MeeGo would be a big help. Ideally it needs to at least make it possible to retrieve the currently playing song information and to control playing, pausing, and skipping forwards/backwards.

Thanks!

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The question has been closed for the following reason "released in a software update" by smoku
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This would also be useful for scrobbling clients (last.fm, libre.fm, etc.)

Elleo ( 2013-12-31 22:56:44 +0200 )edit

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answered 2014-02-11 23:58:07 +0200

rcg
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updated 2014-02-12 17:31:21 +0200

Edit: I changed to a better solution. This solution leverages org.nemomobile.dbus to actually send data via dbus. I also changed the mediaplayer patch accordingly. The new patch is much less "hackish" than the previous one. You can find the new patch here:

https://github.com/ruedigergad/SkippingStones/blob/master/audioplayer_dbus.patch

For an example on how I use this, have a look at the following file:

https://github.com/ruedigergad/SkippingStones/blob/master/qml/MainPage.qml

Edit2: The patch has to be applied to file "/usr/lib/qt5/qml/com/jolla/mediaplayer/AudioPlayer.qml".

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any way to also add a reference to the full file in nowPlaying?

sebsauer ( 2014-02-13 23:43:03 +0200 )edit

@sebsauer It looks like that there are "url" and "duration" properties as well. So, just modify the patch accordingly and give it a try. Please note that I didn't try it. I just briefly grepped through the code in "/usr/lib/qt5/qml/com/jolla/mediaplayer/".

rcg ( 2014-02-15 18:33:37 +0200 )edit

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answered 2013-12-24 20:17:19 +0200