How to get info on current playing song?

[schdeffan]

hi,

i use an xbmc version from the beginning of march 2004 (don't know exactly).

there doesn't seem to be a way to get info on the current song xbmc is playing.

@darkie: could you please add a method for this. best would be something like xbmc.player().currentitem() returning an object of class xbmc.playlistitem().

also xbmc.playlistitem().getduration() returns 0 in my version at least for mp3, haven't tried other things, has that been fixed?

i have some knoweledge in embedding a python-interpreter in other applications exporting app-functions as python-modules, and i would do it my self but i don't have the means to compile xbmc.

- stephan

[xsintill]

darkie while you are at it could it be possible to let scripts run whenever the user wants to shutdown xbmc just like scripts are run whenever xbmc starts up.

[darkie]

also xbmc.playlistitem().getduration() returns 0 in my version at least for mp3, haven't tried other things, has that been fixed?
nothing wrong with that, with xbmc.playlistitem() you create a new playlistitem with everything set to 0, that is why getduration() returns 0. if you have created a playlist and you use something like playlist[3].getduration() with 0 as a result, then it is a bug :)

[muerte]

i just had a great idea. we should make a python script that incorporates a web server so that we can put what song/movie is playing within our sig. that would rock.

[schdeffan]

@darkie, well, thats exactly what heppens. i load a playlist, get sime item on it, lets las pl[7], and getduration() returns 0.

[ent]

i just had a great idea. we should make a python script that incorporates a web server so that we can put what song/movie is playing within our sig. that would rock.
why not use the xbmc web server? it's probably possible, though a bit unsecure