Growlvetica

João Moreno — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:06:50 +0000

This is a very simple Growl theme based on the Helvetica font and it is supposed to be used on the bottom left corner. You can find it on the same repository, and you can download it here. Here’s a screenie:

growl4itunes

João Moreno — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:01:36 +0000

I found that GrowlTunes, the application that notifies Growl whenever iTunes changes status, outputed just too much information; so I did a little script just to output the ‘title’, ‘artist’ and ‘album’ of the current playing song.

growl4itunes
You can find this script under the homonimous folder in my Green Apples repository. Or you can read it here:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from popen2 import popen2
from time import sleep

PERIOD = 5
data = None

while True:
    o, i = popen2("osascript -e 'tell application \"iTunes\" to if player state is playing then name of current track & \"\n\" & artist of current track & \"\n\" & album of current track'")
    newdata = o.readlines()
    if data != newdata:
        data = newdata
        try:
            popen2("growlnotify -m \"" + data[1] + data[2] + "\" -t \"" + data[0] + "\"")
        except:
            pass

    sleep(PERIOD)

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