Detect what Banshee is playing via terminal?

[Tachyon]

Hey, everyone!

Is there a terminal command that'll output the song currently playing in Banshee? Because I'm using the Logjam blog editor to write LiveJournal posts, and it's got this function where it'll detect what music you're playing. The thing is, it doesn't detect from Banshee. And it'll let you assign a custom command of some kind, but the default is

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sh -c "mpc | grep -v '^volume: .* repeat: .* random: .*'"

And that doesn't seem to work.

Any help?

[lagagnon]

That script line is for the mpc media player so of course it won't work.
I searched the Banshee forums for you and found this:

http://banshee-project.org/contribute/w ... nterfaces/

You need to query the dbus interfaces with some code, it looks quite involved to me!

EDIT: try launching "banshee --help" in a terminal and see what options you have ....