I’m listening to...

That’s the current song playing on my system. It’ll appear on my blog’s right. Requires XMMS bindings for Ruby and Ruby-GD (I don’t know the links to the websites.)

Ruby code »

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

#
# $currsong.rb$ $2005-02-28 23:49$
# $premshree pillai$
#

require 'xmms'
require 'GD'
require 'net/ftp'

def do_current_song
	def ftp_image(image)
		ftp = Net::FTP.new($server_ftp)
		ftp.login($server_user, $server_pass)
		files = ftp.chdir($server_path)
		ftp.putbinaryfile(image)
		ftp.close
	end

	remote = Xmms::Remote.new
	song_title = remote.title

	image = GD::Image.new($image_width, $image_height)
	white = image.colorResolve(255,255,255)
	black = image.colorResolve(0,0,0)
	x = 0
	y = 10
	(err, brect) = image.stringTTF(black, $font_path, $font_size, $angle, x, y, song_title)

	if err
		puts err
		exit 1
	end

	file = open($file_name, 'wb')
	image.png file
	image.destroy
	file.close
	ftp_image($file_name)
end

##
# required stuff
##
$file_name = 'curr_song.png' # outputs this file
$font_path = '/path/to/some/font'
$server_ftp = 'ftp.myserver.com'
$server_user = 'foo'
$server_pass = 'bar'
$server_path = '/path/to/dir'

##
# for your pleasure
##
$angle = 0
$font_size = 8.0
$image_width = 200
$image_height = 12

do_current_song

Enjoi!

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