Command to show "playing" or "paused"

Fixes hnarayanan#126
dgmstuart · Mar 3, 2024 · 2871c60 · 2871c60
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commit 2871c60
Showing 1 changed file with 12 additions and 6 deletions.
diff --git a/spotify b/spotify
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ showHelp () {
     echo "  status artist                # Shows the currently playing artist.";
     echo "  status album                 # Shows the currently playing album.";
     echo "  status track                 # Shows the currently playing track.";
+    echo "  status state                 # Shows whether the player is currently \"playing\" or \"paused\".";
     echo;
     echo "  share                        # Displays the current song's Spotify URL and URI."
     echo "  share url                    # Displays the current song's Spotify URL and copies it to the clipboard."
@@ -116,9 +117,12 @@ showTrack() {
     echo `osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to name of current track as string'`;
 }
 
+showState() {
+  echo `osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to player state as string'`;
+}
+
 showStatus () {
-    state=`osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to player state as string'`;
-    cecho "Spotify is currently $state.";
+    cecho "Spotify is currently $(showState).";
     duration=`osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify"
             set durSec to (duration of current track / 1000) as text
             set tM to (round (durSec / 60) rounding down) as text
@@ -285,8 +289,7 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
             break ;;
 
         "pause"    )
-            state=`osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to player state as string'`;
-            if [ $state = "playing" ]; then
+            if [ $showState = "playing" ]; then
               cecho "Pausing Spotify.";
             else
               cecho "Playing Spotify.";
@@ -296,8 +299,7 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
             break ;;
 
         "stop"    )
-            state=`osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to player state as string'`;
-            if [ $state = "playing" ]; then
+            if [ $showState = "playing" ]; then
               cecho "Pausing Spotify.";
               osascript -e 'tell application "Spotify" to playpause';
             else
@@ -392,6 +394,10 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
                     "track" )
                         showTrack;
                         break ;;
+
+                    "state" )
+                        showState;
+                        break ;;
                 esac
             else
                 # status is the only param