Anyplayer

Interacts with the currently running music player. Supports iTunes OS X, iTunes Windows, Rythmbox, MPD & XMMS.

Install

$ gem install anyplayer

Use

$ anyplayer artist     # artist of the current track
New Order
$ anyplayer track      # name of the current track
Blue Monday
$ anyplayer album
Power, Corruption & Lies
$ anyplayer next       # changes track forward
$ anyplayer prev       #               backward
$ anyplayer playpause  # pauses if it is playing, plays if it's paused
$ anyplayer voldown    # put the volume somewhat up
$ anyplayer volup      #                         down
$ anyplayer volume     # prints the volume percentage
100

As a Ruby library

require 'anyplayer'
player = Anyplayer::launched

player.name # => Rythmbox
player.artist # => "The Avalanches"
player.track # => "Frontier Psychiatrist"
# …