#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# ======================================================================
# Author  : Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II
# Website : http://icculus.org/~mongoose/
# Email   : mongooseichiban@gmail.com
# Object  : 
# Comments: This was made to outdo snobby itunes users.
# ======================================================================

import dbus
import sys

def ListCurrentlyPlayingSong(tagBegin, tagEnd):
	bus = dbus.SessionBus() 
	#service = bus.get_object('org.gnome.Banshee', '/')
	#bservice = dbus.Interface(service, 'org.gnome.Banshee.Core')
	object = bus.get_object('org.gnome.Banshee', '/org/gnome/Banshee/Player')

	album = object.GetPlayingAlbum()
	artist = object.GetPlayingArtist()
	title = object.GetPlayingTitle()
	duration = object.GetPlayingDuration()
	position = object.GetPlayingPosition()
	rating = object.GetPlayingRating()
	maxrating = object.GetMaxRating()
	
	# Tags are for bolding, underlining, etc the variable strings.
	# Currently playing message is encoded again to be sure Japanese works. ;)
	s = "Playing: "
	s += tagBegin + title.encode("utf-8") + tagEnd
	s += " from "
	s += tagBegin + album.encode("utf-8") + tagEnd
	s += " by "
	s += tagBegin + artist.encode("utf-8") + tagEnd

	print s



if __name__ == "__main__":
	args = sys.argv[1:]

	if not args:
		ListCurrentlyPlayingSong("", "")
	else:
		ListCurrentlyPlayingSong(args[0], args[1])