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jhansen
jhansen

Reputation: 33

How to continuously poll mpd for currently played song and write result to a file?

The only thing i need to extract from mpd is the currently played song/track. I have to ensure this always is up to date in the output file.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3821

Answers (1)

Phrogz
Phrogz

Reputation: 303460

If you install mpc then you can do the following:

mpc idle player # block until the player changes songs
mpc current     # outputs "Artist Name - Song Name" onto stdout

Do those in a loop, and output the result of current into a file, and you're done!

#!/bin/sh
while true
do
  mpc current > current_song.txt
  mpc idle player
done

The full list of what you can idle for is on the MPD command reference:
http://www.musicpd.org/doc/protocol/command_reference.html#status_commands

Upvotes: 6

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