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

The script requires the following packages and libraries:

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

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)