Project Summary
mpris controller and lib for spotify, vlc, audacious, bmp, xmms2, mplayer, and others.
Playerctl is a command-line utility and library for controlling media players that implement the MPRIS D-Bus Interface Specification. Playerctl makes it easy to bind player actions, such as play and pause, to media keys.
For more advanced users, Playerctl provides an introspectable library available in your favorite scripting language that allows more detailed control like the ability to subscribe to media player events or get metadata such as artist and title for the playing track.
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took an estimated 2 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in April, 2014
ending with its most recent commit over 4 years ago
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