I want to know how can I get the current song information (title, artist, album etc) no matter what player is running. I saw some KDE widget can do that.
How can I do that? is there any standard protocol or interface to get song information?
asked Apr 10, 2012 at 8:52
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2Does this answer your question? Command to get list of all media playing– Pablo BianchiJul 14, 2022 at 16:29
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@PabloBianchi Thanks. It does answer my question. But after 10 years my neurons' links were garbage collected. I can't recall anything.– Shiplu MokaddimJul 18, 2022 at 19:50
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A simple method from the command line would be to read the output from pulseaudio to list properties of a sink input by running the following command in a terminal
pacmd list-sink-inputs
By this we can see the application that initiated a stream as well as other song properties from metatags (including artist, title, etc.) if available.
There's no standard protocol to do that, the widget you're talking about are just handling a lot of protocols. For exemple, Amarok has is own way, VLC another etc...
