Comments on: Implementing “Bob’s Listening To”

By: Paul Henry

Paul Henry — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:44:11 +0000

For multiple squeezeboxes, don’t forget to query the right one!

Modify wget source as http://localhost:9000/xml/status.xml?player=name_of_player

By: Hywel Mallett

Hywel Mallett — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:54:49 +0000

Thanks Bob!
I’ve implemented this myself, in about 10 minutes (including installing libxslt). My scenarios easier than yours, as the web server and slimserver are the same, so mine just creates the file in the correct location. Great instructions though!
H

By: Joel S Aufrecht

Joel S Aufrecht — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 23:25:52 +0000

Here\’s a version of slim-putsong.xsl which does not output the \”by\” or \”from\” text if artist or album is missing: 0\”> 0\”> by 0\”> from

By: Joel Aufrecht

Joel Aufrecht — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:42:50 +0000

Here\’s a modified version of the bash script, which uses ssh instead of ftp:
#!/bin/sh

# shell script to create HTML of current song playing on Squeezebox,
# originally from http://bob.myers.name/blog/article/249
# modified by Joel Aufrecht Oct 2004 to use scp

# check for input
if [[ -z \”$1\” || -z \”$2\” ]]
then
echo \”Usage: putsong.sh target-destination identity-file
Example: To upload a song every 3 minutes, using a dedicated ssh
account called \\\”upload\\\”, put this in your crontab:

*/3 * * * * sh /etc/slimserver/putsong.sh upload@foo.bar:/tmp/song.html /home/me/.ssh/upload\”
exit
fi

STATUS=/tmp/status.xml
STATUS_HTML=/tmp/song.html

wget—quiet—output-document=$STATUS http://localhost:9000/xml/status.xml
# if song is not playing, do nothing
if [ \”`grep -c \’playing\’ $STATUS`\” -eq \”1\” ]
then
xsltproc -o $STATUS_HTML—novalid /etc/slimserver/slim-putsong.xsl $STATUS
echo \”at `date`\” >> $STATUS_HTML
scp -i $2 $STATUS_HTML $1
fi

By: tamagen

tamagen — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 12:34:26 +0000

A quick and dirty approach would be to read the XML from a php page on your web server, assuming you can get access to the slimserver http server from your normal web server - you may need to poke a hole through a firewall. Something like this would work in that case (change localhost to the name or ip address of your slimserver or external nat router interface etc., and since you can\’t use angle brackets here replace the strings LEFTBRACKET and RIGHTBRACKET with left and right angle brackets respectively): LEFTBRACKET? $xml = fread(fopen(\”http://localhost:9000/xml/status.xml\”,r),9999); if (eregi(\”LEFTBRACKETplaymodeRIGHTBRACKETplaying\”,$xml)) { if (preg_match(\”/LEFTBRACKETtitleRIGHTBRACKET([^LEFTBRACKET]*)LEFTBRACKET\\/titleRIGHTBRACKET.*?LEFTBRACKETartistRIGHTBRACKET(.*?)LEFTBRACKET\\/artistRIGHTBRACKET.*?LEFTBRACKETalbumRIGHTBRACKET(.*?)LEFTBRACKET\\/albumRIGHTBRACKET/s\”, $xml, $m)) { $track = $m[1] . \” by \” . $m[2] . \” (Album: \” . $m[3] . \”)\”; } echo \”I am listening to: $track\”; } ?RIGHTBRACKET

By: Johan

Johan — Sat, 08 May 2004 08:30:28 +0000

Well i have my server running at home and have the info available. So i don\’t need to use wget. XSLT i have got working. I can use scheduling in windows to run a batch programme ever so often. My problem now is to get the xsltproc to work with the XML programme you have written. Where do you put the data the XML proc needs? I can\’t find any location information of the input and export file.

By: Bob Myers

Bob Myers — Thu, 06 May 2004 18:21:29 +0000

On Windows, I\’d recommend doing this under Cygwin. That will give you all the pieces you need, including wget (to retrieve the information from the SlimServer), xslt (to transform it), and cron (to run the script every so often).

By: Johan

Johan — Tue, 04 May 2004 15:17:33 +0000

Hold it…. You r going to fast for me…

I am using an windows machine and am not a wizard in programming… I\’ll get there in the end… How can I achieve this on my machine… Will/can you help me?

p.s. i have XSLT/XML PHP APACHE installed and working…