get the pause status from amarok 2.1

[Sleepy Cabbage]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:23:55 +0000, Sleepy Cabbage wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:25:19 +0000, Sleepy Cabbage wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:55:07 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>> 
>>> Sleepy Cabbage schrieb:
>>>> As the title says, I'm trying to find a way to get the pause status
>>>> from amarok 2.1.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm running kubuntu 9.04 with kde 4.2.2, python 2.6.2.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> 
>>> Not at my linux-system right now, but dcop and the respective
>>> python-module should help.
>>> 
>>> Diez
>> 
>> Thanks for you reply Diez. i'm sure that kde4.2 now uses qdbus instead
>> of dcop and not sure whether amarok has the qdbus org.kde.amarok
>> /Player GetStatus as it returns the following: qdbus: I don't know how
>> to display an argument of type '(iiii)'
> 
> 'dbus --literal org.kde.amarok /Player
> org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.GetStatus'

Ref my last post: This works!!