Once, long ago, Kopete had support for MPD , but as it’seen, not anymore ( until when it is not known ) quite frustrating but …
Kopete is connected to dbus, so the problem is reduced to sending the information to the right address in dbus, unfortunately, as it is in the discussion , MPD has no (and will not have any) support for dbus.
In conclusion, in order to share with your friends what you are listening too, dbus support for MPD is required, also a communication interface with Kopete’s dbus.
After a long session in the Google search (my friend), I found some articles (see Resources) and I wrote MPD-DBus-Kopete
Requirements
- Ruby 1.8 (> = 1.8.7)
- Ruby D-Bus (most active fork on GitHub)
- libmpd for Ruby (I use this , it’s actualized and with callbacks)
Note:
- I added librmpd2 as submodul
if you choose an other installation path remember to change the required path lib/mpd_dbus.rb
- the ruby-dbus libraries regardless of their version give me some warnings.Finally I installed openSuSE’s rpm version (unpack the rpm and copy all you need in your ruby directory)
- Ruby D-Bus OpenSuse’s rpm
Useful Resources:
3. Of course the GitHub
