Easy way to access metadata of 'now playing' song

jonenone

Hi,
First of all, thanks for this great player!

I am using strawberry to playback songs for my radio stream and I am trying to find out how I can extract metadata information of the currently playing song to forward it to my radio stream as well.

Is there an easy way to access that data? I am on a mac, and I already tried monitoring ~/Library/Application Support/Strawberry/strawberry.db for changes, but could only find 'lastplayed' is updated once a song is finished.

I also tried intercepting desktop notifications, but without any luck.

I know this is sort of an unusual use case as I am not using Strawberry to stream to my radio server but another software, however, I would be really grateful for any hints!

Many thanks!

mataha

+1

My (rather crude) solution involves fetching currently playing song's data from Strawberry's window title.
The code is roughly equivalent to the following (inline cmd, Windows):

@chcp 65001 >nul 2>&1
for /f "tokens=2,* skip=9 usebackq" %i in (
    `tasklist /v /fo list /fi "imagename eq strawberry.exe" 2^>nul`
) do @echo %j

However, I can only extract the song's artist and title with this - not to mention it's not configurable.

There must be a better way...

jonas

I think it should be possible to enable D-Bus on macOS.
Some instructions here: https://github.com/zbentley/dbus-osx-examples/blob/master/installation/README.md

The macOS versions of Strawberry is compiled with MPRIS2 D-Bus support.
I have never tested it though, so I can't say if it works or not.