Quod Libet plugin “Open terminal here”

Marianne — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:50:10 +0000

I think I “wrote” a plugin for Quod Libet. “Wrote” meaning I copied and modified an existing plugin until it did what I want it to do: it opens an Xfce terminal window in the directory that contains the current song. I’m pretty sure I wrote this file, but it was back in November, I didn’t put an appropriate comment in the plugin file, so if anyone else wants to claim authorship, go ahead and let me know.

Just create a file “openterminal.py” with the following content:

import gtk
from qltk import ErrorMessage
from plugins.songsmenu import SongsMenuPlugin
from qltk.entry import ValidatingEntry
import util
import config
import os

class BrowseFolders(SongsMenuPlugin):
    PLUGIN_ID = 'Open Terminal'
    PLUGIN_NAME = _('Open Terminal')
    PLUGIN_DESC = "Open an XFCE terminal at this location"
    PLUGIN_ICON = 'gtk-about'
    PLUGIN_VERSION = '0.1'

    def plugin_songs(self, songs):
        dirs = dict.fromkeys([song('~dirname') for song in songs]).keys()[0]
        os.system('xfce4-terminal --working-directory=%s' % dirs)

Put it either into the directory ~/.quodlibet/plugins/songsmenu (then it will only work for you) or into /usr/share/quodlibet/plugins/songsmenu/ for system-wide installation.

It works for me, but it may contain errors. Use at your own risk.

Quod Libet: last.fm scrobbler plugin error solved

Marianne — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:56:14 +0000

Activating the last.fm plugin for scrobbler submission resulted in this error:

ImportError: no module named lastfm

It works after

sudo aptitude install lastfmsubmitd

During installation, leave last.fm login and password blank (I don’t want to have this report system-wide under my name) and set permission for group audio. Then, set your username and password directly in the last.fm audioscrobbler plugin.

Addendum

It seems I don’t even need this. Quod Libet (1.0) on the laptop shows the same error message, no matter whether I have the “Audioscrobbler Submission” plugin activated or not. (The error message shows up when I click on the “Show Errors” button in the plugins selector window). However, activating the plugin and entering last.fm username and password scrobbles just fine.

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Quod Libet plugin “Open terminal here”

Quod Libet: last.fm scrobbler plugin error solved

Addendum