banshee-wrapper

An extensive Bash script which interfaces with Banshee via the default command line arguments to provide various services

Current features:

• On-demand popup of now-playing information, similar in format to that provided by the Notification Area Icon community extension
• Absolute and relative ranking changes to current track

Screenshots

On GNOME 3.16 (Dark Theme) the notifications provided by banshee-wrapper will look something like:

Figure 1: Display default

Figure 2: Display during mouse hover

Requirements

The script requires the following packages and libraries:

• notify-send

Installation

Clone the repository with

$ git clone https://github.com/Rhotias/banshee-wrapper.git

Copy the banshee-wrapper file to your directory of choice. ~/.local/bin/ is a good one, if that's on your $PATH. Make the script executable with

$ chmod +x banshee-wrapper

Execution

The program accepts the following flags and arguments:

• -n : Display a notify-send notification with information on the currently-playing track rating, number, title, artist, and album

  The album art shown in this notification is sourced from the Banshee media art cache

• -r [+|-]x : Set the current track rating to x, or increase/decrease it by x (note: Banshee ratings range from 0 to 5)