control-pianobar-osx

Description

This is a fork from control-pianobar that I hacked a little bit in order to make it work with pianobar and Growl in OS X

UPDATE 12/29/15: Improved support in El Capitan by porting zenity to the seemingly-better-supported CocoaDialog.

The original project can be found at http://bruce-connor.github.io/control-pianobar/. Go there if you require to use this in Linux derivatives!

Installation:

Install Pianobar

Using Homebrew, do

$ brew install pianobar

Some Problems' Troubleshooting

if the dylib is broken, for instance with p11-kit, just reinstall the lib (brew uninstall p11-kit && brew install p11-kit)
if guile cannot find GNU libtool, it might not be linked properly, so run $ brew unlink libtool && brew link libtool
- Then, reinstall gnutls as following
```
$ brew rm gnutls & brew install gnutls $(brew options gnutls | grep -E '^--with-' - | tr '\n' ' ')
```
Missing header neaacdec.h, you need to install the AAC decoder that comes in faad2, it may not be linked
```
  $ brew unlink faad2 && brew link faad2
```
Sometimes, this is an issue (only realized by using --verbose mode), so reinstall the mad package:
```
  $ brew rm mad & brew install mad
```

Runtime missing library:

  $ brew unlink json-c && brew link json-c

From source

Getting pianobar from the pianobar project at github and follow their instructions

Setting up control-pianobar

Get the two bash scripts and put them and pandora.jpg (or any other icon) in your ~/.config/pianobar/ folder
Create a symbolic link to control-painobar.sh from your ~/bin directory or other folder in your PATH variable
```
 ln -s ~/.config/pianobar/control-pianobar.sh ~/bin/
```
Install Requirements
Install the growlnotify command by getting it from http://growl.info/downloads
Install wget from Homebrew and cocoadialog from homebrew-cask:

$ brew install wget Caskroom/cask/cocoadialog
Verify path to cocoadialog binary in ~/.config/pianobar/control-pianobar.sh
Make a pidof script with

```
#!/bin/bash
ps axc|awk "{if (\$5==\"$1\") print \$1}";
```

1. Make it executable with `$ chmod a+x pidof`

1. Save it somewhere in your `$PATH` locations so it can be found

Usage

Refer to the original project's website for clearer instructions on how to use control-pianobar or do key bindings to your keys.

In a nutshell: I use BetterTouchTool to keybind the commands (***not working directly with the bash scripts command) so I made individual AppleScript applications for each command. For example,

In particular, for the initial play script, this works fine for me:

tell application "System Events"
    if (count (processes whose bundle identifier is "com.apple.Terminal")) is 0 then
        tell application "/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app"
            do script "~/.config/pianobar/control-pianobar.sh p;" in window 0
        end tell
    else
        tell application "/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app"
            do script "~/.config/pianobar/control-pianobar.sh p; exit;"
        end tell
    end if
end tell

For any other control option, like next, the AppleScript would like as follows:

tell application "Terminal"
    do script ("~/.config/pianobar/control-pianobar.sh next; exit;")
end tell

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