Less Dirty Using Dbus

Unfortunately, Audacious doesn't support dbus yet which will be supported in the upcoming 1.4. That's why audtool has to be used.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import dbus
import time
import commands

try:
   purpleObject = dbus.SessionBus().get_object("im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService", \
   "/im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject")
   purple = dbus.Interface(purpleObject, \
   "im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface")
except dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
   print "Unable to connect to Pidgin! Make sure it is running."
   exit(1)

class Track:
   __message = ""
   def setMessage(self, message):
         currentStatus = purple.PurpleSavedstatusGetCurrent()
         currentStatusType = purple.PurpleSavedstatusGetType(currentStatus)
         currentStatusId = purple.PurplePrimitiveGetIdFromType(currentStatusType)
         accounts = purple.PurpleAccountsGetAllActive()
         saved = purple.PurpleSavedstatusNew("", currentStatusType)
         purple.PurpleSavedstatusSetMessage(saved, message)
         purple.PurpleSavedstatusActivate(saved)

   def update(self):
      if commands.getoutput('audtool playback-status') == 'playing':
         artist = commands.getoutput('audtool current-song-tuple-data performer')
         title = commands.getoutput('audtool current-song-tuple-data track_name')
         message = artist + " - " + title
      else:
         message = ""
      if self.__message != message:
         self.__message = message
         self.setMessage(message)

track = Track()

while True:
   time.sleep(1)
   track.update()