This should fix some chars not being displayed properly (i.e. German Umlauts) diff -U 3 -H -d -r -N -- G15_Show_Tune/main.js G15_Show_Tune_upd/main.js --- G15_Show_Tune/main.js 2010-08-18 15:58:40.053998954 +0200 +++ G15_Show_Tune_upd/main.js 2010-08-18 15:56:14.000000000 +0200 @@ -50,24 +50,6 @@ return result; } -function convertCP437( string ) -{ - //string = "�rzte"; - - // convert original Latin1 text to Unicode - codecLatin1 = new QTextCodec.codecForName(new QByteArray("ISO 8859-1")); - unicode_str = codecLatin1.toUnicode(new QByteArray(string)); - - // now transcode Unicode to IBM 850/CP437 - codec850 = new QTextCodec.codecForName(new QByteArray("IBM 850")); - output = codec850.fromUnicode(unicode_str).toString(); - - // Amarok.alert(t.readAll()); - return output; -} -// Amarok.alert( convertCP437( "�rzte" ) ); // Just an convertion check - - function startComposer() { if(!composerProcess) @@ -145,14 +127,14 @@ var rating = trackinfo.rating; var filetype = trackinfo.type; var bitrate = trackinfo.bitrate; - var result = "MC 1\n" + + var result = "MC 1\n" + "TO 2 2 1 0 \"Track \"\n" + - "TO 31 2 2 0 \"" + convertCP437( title.substring(pos_t, pos_t + 16)) + "\"\n" + + "TO 31 2 2 0 \"" + title.substring(pos_t, pos_t + 16) + "\"\n" + "DB 0 11 159 11 1 " + currentTime + " " + totalTime + " 1\n" + "TO 2 15 1 0 \"Band \"\n" + - "TO 31 15 2 0 \"" + convertCP437( artist.substring(pos_b, pos_b + 16)) + "\"\n" + + "TO 31 15 2 0 \"" + artist.substring(pos_b, pos_b + 16) + "\"\n" + "TO 2 24 1 0 \"Album \"\n" + - "TO 31 24 2 0 \"" + convertCP437( album.substring(pos_a, pos_a + 16))+ "\"\n" + + "TO 31 24 2 0 \"" + album.substring(pos_a, pos_a + 16) + "\"\n" + "DL 1 32 158 32 1\n" + "TO 2 34 1 0 \"" + time + "\"\n" + "TO 2 34 1 1 \"rating: " + rating + "\"\n" + @@ -160,7 +142,8 @@ "PB 0 0 159 42\n" + "MC 0"; amarok_stream.writeString("PC 0\n"); - amarok_stream.writeString(result + "\n"); + amarok_stream.writeString(result); + amarok_stream.writeString("\n"); amarok_stream.flush(); // Amarok.alert(trackinfo); } else { @@ -195,6 +178,7 @@ amarok_pipe = new QFile(amarok_pipe_name); amarok_pipe.open(new QIODevice.OpenMode(QIODevice.WriteOnly)); amarok_stream = new QTextStream(amarok_pipe); +amarok_stream.setCodec(QTextCodec.codecForName(new QByteArray("IBM 850"))); // set up timer timer = new QTimer();

If g15composer is not present it hangs whole amarok. There should be some check for g15composer and warning if it's not found. Nice script anyway :)

Hello, here is a small patch for your script (it seems the total time is returned in ms now)

--- G15_Show_Tune/main.js       2009-03-10 01:10:36.000000000 +0100
+++ main.js     2009-10-17 11:24:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -131,9 +131,9 @@
     }
     last_a = album;
     var currentTime = Amarok.Engine.trackPosition();
-    var totalTime = trackinfo.length;
+    var totalTime = trackinfo.length / 1000;
     var track_pos = getTime(currentTime);
-    var tot_time = getTime(trackinfo.length);
+    var tot_time = getTime(totalTime);
     if(totalTime == 0)
     {
         currentTime = 1;