Images in Conky (specifically rhythmbox album art) (Page 2 of 7)

it's really good work and i'll to try help out in anyway. i'll get rid of the -s then and try several fonts also to see better results. check this : http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2008/1 … g-library/

sorry the link is nothing to do from what i read

Last edited by geoisis (2009-08-02 20:39:49)

I think last.fm wouldnt be a bad idea.

Now stupid question, for this to work with conky, i have to have it compiled with imlib support, correct?

you can always use google: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=$replace(%artist%,' ','+')&btnG=Recherche+d%27images&gbv=2 , foobar2000 uses this to fetch cover and artist images.
but i don't see why you can't fetch them also from last.fm.
scrobbling would be nice but not necessary, since all major programms have that future built in .
there are a zillion lyric sites you can choose from.

Last edited by geoisis (2009-08-03 12:24:41)

great.
did you try anything with last.fm ?

this just keeps getting better
could you add mpd support too please ?

nevermind i figured it out

Last edited by geoisis (2009-08-03 21:17:46)

Which conky version do you have installed?

here you go http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/296 . Now with lastfm, mpd, and artist art support. For mpd you need to install python-mpdclient, for lastfm you need to install python-lastfm. Heres instructions for lastfm since I ran into an issue with it:
svn checkout http://python-lastfm.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ python-lastfm
cd python-lastfm
sudo python setup.py install
cd lastfm
sudo cp -R mixin /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/lastfm-0.2-py2.6.egg/lastfm/
sudo cp -R util /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/lastfm-0.2-py2.6.egg/lastfm/

for artist art launch with -a and it stores the picture in ~/.artist

preview screenshot(I know my conky needs a little work):

Sorry I missed the post...

As far as I can determine, 1.4.9

IGGYKOOPA

If that was meant for me, I don't have a folder or doc in usr/bin named "python", I have the blue boxes on a corner(executeables) for python and for pythons 2.5 and 2.6 and configs for python 2.5 and 2.6 but no "python" config document.  Are you suggesting that I make a "python" document and put the script from the pastbin in it?

If so, then am I correct to assume that I am not to place the line #!/usr/bin, but the rest of it.

Kyte

Last edited by Kyte (2009-08-04 19:11:37)

another update http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/298 . Now auto-detects what player your using (don't use -p anymore), only issue is if your running the mpd daemon but using a different player like moc it may detect mpd first and not display anything. Just make sure if your running something else mpd is turned off. Also changed the image preference from medium to large(to download from lastfm) should improve the image quality. I had it set to medium before to save on bandwidth but had noticed the images didn't look that great too.

kyte heres step by step instructions for my script:
download my script from here http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/298 and save it as ~/scripts/conkymusic.py
chmod +x ~/scripts/conkymusic.py
sudo apt-get install python-mpdclient (only if you use mpd)
download this image http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11J2DMYABHL.jpg and save it as ~/.noalbum
svn checkout http://python-lastfm.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ python-lastfm
cd python-lastfm
sudo python setup.py install
cd lastfm
sudo cp -R mixins /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/lastfm-0.2-py2.6.egg/lastfm/
sudo cp -R util /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/lastfm-0.2-py2.6.egg/lastfm/
now open your conkyrc and add something similar to this(changing the position how you want, and change eric to your username):
Now Playing${hr}
${offset 166}${voffset 50}${execi 5 /home/eric/scripts/conkymusic.py --artist}
${offset 166}${execi 5 /home/eric/scripts/conkymusic.py --album}
${offset 166}${execi 5 /home/eric/scripts/conkymusic.py --title}
${execi 5 /home/eric/scripts/conkymusic.py -a -r}${image /home/eric/.artist -p 0,12}${image /home/eric/.album -p 82,12}

that should be it, but if you have any other problems with it let me know. Also I need to get my own api key soon for lastfm, I "found" the one I'm using. So once I get a new one I'll put it up and ask anyone using the script to update.

edit: also if you want the images a different size call it this way(replace 100x100 with whatever size you want):
${execi 5 /home/eric/scripts/conkymusic.py -a -r -s 100x100}

edit agian: to check if your conky supports images do:
conky --version
under general it should say imlib2

go ahead now I need to dig into the lastfm api and see if they have lyrics, can also add recommended artists and stuff like that as well.