Contents:

Introduction
Installation
Defining the HotKey
Using playCopy as a module
Enable/Disable the notification
Download

1. Introduction

Well as you may know, *playCopy* is a python script, wich is designed for the people, who like to share the music they are listening with their friends in Skype, ICQ etc, using a simple global HotKey combination.
The script works as follows:

- Check if one of the supported players is playing

- Copy the name of the artist and the title of the song

- Combine the artist and the title in one string

- Send the end string to the clipboard

The script supports the following players:

2. Installation

The installation is very simple. After you have extracted the downloaded archive you need to do the following:
- Make the playCopy script executable:

$ chmod +x playCopy

- Copy the playCopy script to /usr/bin as root:

# cp playCopy /usr/bin

3. Defining the HotKey

Here is the tricky part. To define a global HotKey for executing the script you need to do the following steps:

1. Start gconf-editor

2. Go to apps → metacity → keybinding_commands

3. Select the variable command_1 end set value: playCopy

4. Now go to apps → metacity → global_keybinding

5. Select the variable run_command_1 end set value: <Control><Alt>c

You can insert your preferered key-combination, but don't forget the < and > tags

4. Using playCopy as a module

playCopy can also be used as a module for other Python scripts. To use it, simply rename playCode to playCode.py and use as follows:

import playCopy
print playCopy.cur_song() # Use playCopy.cur_song() however you wish!

But be aware that you will have to remove the notifies from the scirpt!

5. Enable/Disable the notification

In order to enable or disable the notifications is to edit the playCopy script and set the variable show_not, where:

1 : Enabled (notification for the current playing song will be shown)

0 : Disabled (no notification will be shown)

6. Download

Latest stable release:

playCopy_1.0.tar.bz2 | md5sum

Older releases:

playCopy_0.8.tar.bz2 | md5sum

playCopy_0.7.tar.bz2 | md5sum

playCopy_0.4.tar.bz2 | md5sum

playCopy_0.4.tar.bz2 | md5sum

playCopy_0.3.tar.bz2 | md5sum

Launchpad branch:

bzr branch lp:playcopy

Have fun and don't hesitate to suggest new players or other options to the script.

Author: Vladimir Kolev