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I am using pithos on debian 9 with xfce.
I am looking for a simple way to control it with the command line.
I installed mpris-remote but when I run it, it says:
$ mpris-remote
No MPRIS-compliant player found running.
How do I get it to work?
Or, do you have any working solutions for controlling pithos from the command line?
Pianobar is out becuase I need a GUI as well.
Person93
Posted 2017-12-07T20:19:15.710
Reputation: 111
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mpris-remote (the Debian version) was written for MPRIS v1, while Pithos only supports the MPRIS v2 interface. (Practically all players now use only v2.)
You will need to use another client, such as playerctl, this other mpris-remote, or my mpris.
The API is somewhat easy to use directly via busctl call or gdbus call as well.
busctl --user --acquired | grep mpris
gdbus introspect -e -d org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.pithos -o /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2
user1686
Posted 2017-12-07T20:19:15.710
Reputation: 283 655
I had some trouble with the installation of playerctl. I ran:
sudo ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/playerctland
sudo make installEverything seemed to work fine, but when I tried to run it is said command not found. – Person93 – 2017-12-07T21:06:03.863
If you install it to a nonstandard path, you need to specify it in full when running the command. – user1686 – 2017-12-07T21:13:03.870
I used the full path. It said that it was missing a library.
error while loading shared libraries: libplayerctl-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryI tried recompiling it after setting this env variableexport LDFLAGS="-rpath /path/to/library "$LDFLAGS. It didn't help. I tried runninglibtool --mode=finish /opt/playerctl/libplayerctl-1.0.so.0, I got this error:libtool: error: invalid argument '/opt/playerctl/libplayerctl-1.0.so.0. – Person93 – 2017-12-07T21:34:46.617