Images in Conky (specifically rhythmbox album art) (Page 6 of 7)

I tried adding banshee support to mine, but I was having a lot of issues with it not reporting the track info correctly. I can give another shot at it if I have time this week.

Sorted:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/398

I cheated and looked through the existing script for an existing comparison; the script now makes the comparison and resizes the artist image to fit in the same size space as the album cover, whether the image is tall or wide.

I noticed most of you stack the images side-by-side; you could just comment out or delete everything in the size_image function from the if through the else (inclusive) and unindent the remaining four lines after the else.  The artist image will now scale to the same height as the album art, but it won't  distort into a square.  Reflections still work well with this.

RETRACTION:  Reflections *sorta* work.  If the artist image is wide, the right portion of the image is clipped off.  I can't think of a fix for this without creating a separate function to handle just the artist art (which may be a good idea.)  With reflections turned off, you get the full artist image no matter how wide it is.

RETRACTION 2:  The caching script has a major caveat.  If there's a temporary problem fetching art, the wrong image might get cached.  http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/399 has the non-caching script with the scaling tweak, modified for height matching.

Last edited by pvsage (2009-11-19 05:15:47)

PIL?  We don't need no PIL!  I don't have to show you any stinkin' PIL! 

I removed the PIL include lines and changed the antialias function call to just Image.ANTIALIAS.  Works just fine without PIL.  PIL-free version is at http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/400.

Last edited by pvsage (2009-11-19 08:05:26)

I just realized that, with mocp anyway, the info call doesn't have to come from Conky.  Do other players like rhythmbox and MPD/MPC have something similar to OnSongChange that can execute a script?  Seems a waste of processor resources to have Conky constantly calling a script to check something that only changes when the song changes.

^ +1  Or rewrite it to parse something like --player="mediaplayer".

I'm gunna try that pyLast I mentioned in another thread and see if I can learn enough to write a functional script for that.   Apparently you have to install it first before you can see all the options; project page isn't very well documented.   EDIT:  The pylast.py script itself is extremely well documented with doc strings; even I should be able to figure it out.

I might just end up making my own API.  Why not?  I already have my own key.  It would have to be something that cooperates with every media player we use around here though.

Last edited by pvsage (2009-11-23 18:30:43)

Heya all

I added some code to the .py to convert the album cover to greyscale..

http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/757

def grey():
    image = Image.open(home + "/.album")
    image = image.convert('L')
    image.save(home + "/.album", "png")

Original post:http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/30871/#p30871
Original code:http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/295

More info and screenie here: http://pieter.blinkenshell.org/blog/?p=74

Last edited by Pieter (2010-09-05 11:37:14)

@thefallofroy:  "imlib_cache_size 0" goes in your .conkyrc, pretty much anywhere above the TEXT section.

It works great for me, but it wont fetch a new album art when I change it in rhythmbox. Help?

Hi crunchbangers,

It is quite off-board, but I wanted to share it
So, based on your scripts I wrote to put the song title and album art onto rox pinboard using rox SOAP command description.
It is also a bit different from yours as it store albumart in the album dir in order to have nice directory icons in my music dir.
As for my needs, it does only works with mocp

First a shot :
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20498706/2011-0 … _scrot.png

next, the script:

#!/bin/bash

file=$(mocp -Q %file) 
icon=${file%/*.*}/.DirIcon
if ! [ -f "$icon" ] 
then str=`mocp -Q %a+%A | sed -e s/\ /+/g | sed -e s/\'/+/g`
url=`wget "http://www.albumart.org/index.php?srchkey=$str&itempage=1&newsearch=1&searchindex=Music" -q -O - | grep "http://www.albumart.org/images/zoom-icon.jpg" -m 1 | sed -e 's/" border="0" class="image_border.*//' | sed -e 's/.*img src="//'` 
echo $url
wget $url -q -O "$icon" 2>>~/documents/sys/log/album.log
fi
cp "${icon}" /home/ben/music/.DirIcon
rox --RPC << EOF
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope">
<env:Body xmlns="http://rox.sourceforge.net/SOAP/ROX-Filer">
<PinboardAdd>
<Path>/home/ben/music</Path>
<Label>`mocp -Q "- %a -\n %t"`</Label>
<Update>true</Update>
</PinboardAdd>
</env:Body>
</env:Envelope>
EOF

Just have to put it as mocp song change script
Also, here is one to revert to a "standard" icon when no playing music

#!/bin/sh

cp /home/ben/music/.DirIcon.old /home/ben/music/.DirIcon
rox --RPC << EOF
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope">
<env:Body xmlns="http://rox.sourceforge.net/SOAP/ROX-Filer">
<PinboardAdd>
<Path>/home/ben/music</Path>
<Label>Musique</Label>
<Update>true</Update>
</PinboardAdd>
</env:Body>
</env:Envelope>
EOF

Last edited by puckb (2011-03-28 20:54:21)

off hand its this commented out line,

#from PIL import Image

(line 7)
don't know why it was commented out tho.