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deadrabbit
Interacting with Music Player Daemon
Feb 14th, 2009, 5:33am  
I'm new to Java and Processing, and I'm trying to figure out how to get information from MPD in Linux. There's a Java API for MPD (http://www.thejavashop.net/javampd/index.shtml), but I can't figure out how to use it from Processing.

Alternatively, I could use command line programs to do the same thing, although it's not ideal. Is this possible? I know java is designed to be platform independent, and portable, so I'm guessing it may not be. However, must other languages have a way to do this.

Thanks
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PhiLho 
Re: Interacting with Music Player Daemon
Reply #1 - Feb 14th, 2009, 9:16am  
The examples page seems clear and simple enough, at least for somebody with a little knowledge of Java.
What are you trying to do, exactly?
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deadrabbit
Re: Interacting with Music Player Daemon
Reply #2 - Feb 14th, 2009, 2:42pm  
I'm trying to get text from MPD, things like song title. Which example are you referring to? Unfortunately, I don't have much knowledge of Java, and I can't figure out where to put the mpd jar file so that I use it processing. Is there a way to run OS level commands? I look at the examples for a while for something like that, but I didn't see anything.
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PhiLho 
Re: Interacting with Music Player Daemon
Reply #3 - Feb 14th, 2009, 5:50pm  
Examples page.
I don't have an Unix installed, so I can't try MPD I fear.
To use a foreign Java library in Processing, you must put the jar in a code folder in the sketch folder. Or, apparently, just dragging the jar file on the PDE works, so I read.
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