playerdo 2.1

Description:

playerdo 2.1

player_do provides a simple command line interface to control whatever media
player is running on your computer. It has been designed for and tested on
Linux.
It is designed to allow you to configure the media buttons on your keyboard
(play, pause, next etc.) to Do The Right Thing without having to change anything
if you switch to a different media player.
It also includes commands install_gnome, install_mate,
install_gnome3, and install_cinnamon to help set up keyboard shortcuts
initially on GNOME2/Mate/GNOME3/Cinnamon. It can, however, be used with any
system where you can map keyboard shortcuts to commands.
The currently supported media players can be seen by running player_do --help.
Those that have been tested include the following:

Audacious
Amarok
Banshee
Clementine
cmus
Exaile
Guayadeque
moc
MPD (configurable using MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT environment variables like mpc)
pianobar
Quodlibet
Rhythmbox (needs MPRIS plugin installed and enabled)
shell-fm (0.8 and later)
VLC (2.0 and later)
Firefox, Chrome (when playing some media like videos and podcasts)

Many other players will be supported due to support for the MPRIS DBUS protocol,
without a specific backend. If you only need support for those players, consider
using MPRIS-remote or playerctl.
To add more supported programs, see the existing code in the backends
directory. Patches gratefully received!

Installation
You need Python 3.8 or later. You can use pip to install:
pip install playerdo
However, we recommend the use of pipx to
install it into its own virtualenv, using your standard system Python 3,
with “system” libraries available (due to the DBUS requirement below):
pipx install playerdo --system-site-packages --python `which python3`
You also need to install Python DBUS bindings. We recommend doing this at
the system level. On Debian-like systems this is usually done with one of the
following packages:
python-dbus
python3-dbus
An alternative to system-level Python DBUS is to use pipx to install them:
pipx inject playerdo dbus-python
(If an appropriate binary wheel for dbus is not found, the above may require
development packages to be installed, including libglib2.0-dev and
libdbus-1-dev and Python development headers).
After installation, you can use player_do test to ensure everything expected
is available. It’s normal to see error messages relating to players that you
do not use or have installed.


Usage
Control the currently active player using commands like:
player_do playpause
player_do next
For all commands and other options, see:
player_do --help


Links
Download: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/playerdo
Source code: https://github.com/spookylukey/playerdo
Bug tracking: https://github.com/spookylukey/playerdo/issues
Changes: https://github.com/spookylukey/playerdo/blob/master/CHANGES.rst