Version:           1.1 (KDE 3.5.10) (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I have a strange problem.

I had until yesterday Kubuntu Intrepid 8.10 with KDE 4.2. Then I made a clean install with Kubuntu Jaunty 9.04 and upgraded to KDE 4.2.2 by the PPA packages.

So, on Intrepid I used a ruby script that I used as now playing script because of Amarok 2 [SVN]. This script stopped working for no apparent reason.

However I found an old bash script that could just submit info to konversation fine. I made a simple script that will run inside the ruby script and then post it.

Neither approach worked, although when called each script from the cli (and entered static info for server and channel) they worked fine.

I even downloaded the media script as announced on the konversation portal page. I can say that the media script and ruby script both worked at some stage, but after a restart of konversation they ceased working.

I have no explanation for this, especially when they run from the shell.

Below is the script:






#!/usr/bin/ruby

#appid  = $*[0]
#server  = $*[1]
#target = $*[2]

appid = "konversation"
server = "0"
target = "#konversation"

metadata  = `qdbus org.mpris.amarok /Player GetMetadata 2> /dev/null`.chomp

hash = Hash.new
metadata = metadata.split("\n")
metadata.each do |line|
  key = line.split(": ")[0]
  value = line.split(": ")[1]
  if value.nil?
    value = ""
  end
  hash[key] = value
end

title  = hash["title"]
artist = hash["artist"]
album  = hash["album"]
year   = hash["year"]
streamName = "" #CGI.unescape(`qdbus org.mpris.amarok /Player streamName`.chomp)
version = "" #`qdbus org.mpris.amarok /Player version`.chomp
version = `amarok --version`.match(/^Amarok\:(.+)/i).captures

output = ""

if title.empty?
    output += `qdbus org.mpris.amarok /Player nowPlaying`.chomp
else
    # Strip file extension
    extensions = ".ogg", ".mp3", ".wav", ".flac", ".fla", ".wma", ".mpc", ".oga"
    ext = File.extname( title ).downcase

    if extensions.include?( ext )
        title = title[0, title.length - ext.length]
    end

    if artist.empty?
        output += "'#{title}'"
    else
        output += "'#{title}' by '#{artist}'"
    end

    unless album.empty?
        output += " on '#{album}'"
        output += " (anno: #{year})" unless year == "0" or year.empty?
#        output += "]"
    end

    unless streamName.empty?
        output += " (#{streamName})"
    end

    unless version.empty?
        output += " - [Amarok#{version}]"
    end
end


info = "appid:  #{appid} - server: #{server} - target: #{target}"

f = File.open("ruby.txt", 'w')
f.write(info)
f.close

#puts output
#puts "#{output}"

`dcop konversation irc say #{server} "#{target}" "/me is listening to #{output}"`