Re: read cmus status

[Frank T. <ft...@be...>]

x.g...@ti... <x.g...@ti...>:
> I was wondering if it is possible to read cmus (playing track title,
> artist, etc...) from the outside. I know that with the
> "status_display_program" option I can send cmus status where i want,
> but I'd like to query its status from the outside, not the reverse.
> I know I can do it by saving "status_display_program" to a
> temporaney file, but is there a more straight way?

Well, since UNIX is about files, I don't find saving to files
non-straight forward. :-)

If you want to reduce the number of hard disk accesses, you can put
the file into ram (on a tmpfs for example). That's actually what I am
doing. I'm attaching my status script, as an example.


On the other hand, querying for the current player status could be
something cmus-remote could do as well (I have the feeling this was
discussed before...); we could introduce a new option
'format_status_remote', which would configure how the output of
cmus-remote should look like.

What would probably be useful, if the status script does nothing but
writing the current status to a file (like mine does). Thoughts?

Regards, Frank

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