Recently at work I've been using Viridan to listen to music at work. It has its warts, but generally works pretty well. There's even an XMLRPC server built in, so you can control it remotely. However, there's not a huge number of clients out there, so I wrote my own little script so that I could start and stop it from a Qtile keybinding, and I thought I'd put it up here for anyone else who is interested. Here's an example session:

smitten:~$ ./vif.py 
./vif.py [rpc_call(s)]
   availible methods are:
     get_current_song
     get_state
     get_volume
     next
     play_pause
     prev
     set_volume
     volume_down
     volume_up
smitten:~$ ./vif.py get_current_song
{'artist_name': 'Meshuggah','song_title': 'Stengah', ...}
smitten:~$ ./vif.py next
True

Hopefully someone else finds it useful :-)

Ahoy!

Just writing a quick post to pimp my new Ampache "bindings", which are called ampyche, naturally ;-). I slapped them together one afternoon mostly to get an understanding of the Ampache API, so that's why I used my native language. I have no specific plans for any python applications using them, but I'm interested in improving the stability of Android-based Ampache clients, as well as adding support for Ampache to Clementine, so I thought this would be a good place to start.

In any case, I hope someone finds them useful! Happy hacking!