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#1 2018-12-16 14:36:36

huzo11
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Registered: 2018-10-31
Posts: 60

[i3] Showing current progress in a playing track on Spotify

Hello all,   

So I have been trying to write a shell script with my shallow knowledge to control spotify and see what is currently playing on my i3blocks sidebar. I successfully binded some keys for play/pause-next-previous. And also wrote a python script using dbus library to get current track's information such as song name, artist album.

import dbus
import sys

session_bus = dbus.SessionBus()
spotify_bus = session_bus.get_object("org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify", "/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2")
spotify_properties = dbus.Interface(spotify_bus, "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties")
metadata = spotify_properties.Get("org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player","Metadata")
print(str(metadata['xesam:artist'][0]), '~',  metadata['xesam:title'])

Now I would like to display the progress of the current track. For instance 1:02 / 5:12.

But I have no idea how I can access it. Any ideas on how I can somehow print such information?

Thanks!!!


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#2 2018-12-18 19:26:29

dmartins
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Registered: 2006-09-23
Posts: 360

Re: [i3] Showing current progress in a playing track on Spotify

It looks like the track length is available in the metadata - stored as microseconds - but the current position in a track is not available. There is a position attribute you can access but it is always 0. From some forum posts on spotify.com, it seems like this hasn't worked in years.

For the length of the current track:

length = int(metadata['mpris:length'])
mins = length / 1000000 // 60
seconds = length / 1000000 % 60

For the position that is always 0:

position = spotify_properties.Get("org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player","Position")

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#3 2018-12-19 01:23:09

ajbibb
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Registered: 2012-02-12
Posts: 142

Re: [i3] Showing current progress in a playing track on Spotify

Here is how I get the current track position in a BASH script for i3-status.  Saved in a variable called "time" which I then use to display.  I assume i3-blocks would or could use something similar.

time=$(dbus-send --print-reply=literal --session --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.mbmp /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.getPositionInSeconds)

Substitute "Spotify" for "mbmp" in the  command.  MBMP is a homegrown thing, but does have an mpris interface.

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