Control rhythmbox inside Emacs
It is until recently that I came across a configuration option that emacs can
send shell command to other applications such as rhythmbox, so I created a
simple file to make this work inside emacs.
The rhythmbox comes with a client tool to make it possible to control the playing from a terminal, so that life will be a lot easier when implementing controlling inside emacs, the functions involved is as follows:
(defun rhythmbox-linux-command (command-name) "Execute command for rhythmbox inside emacs" (interactive) (setq command-text (format "rhythmbox-client %s" command-name)) (shell-command command-text)) (defun rhythmbox-toggle () "Play/Pause rhythmbox" (interactive) (rhythmbox-linux-command "--play-pause")) (defun rhythmbox-next () "Next song in rhythmbox" (interactive) (rhythmbox-linux-command "--next")) (defun rhythmbox-previous () "Previous song in the rhythmbox" (interactive) (rhythmbox-linux-command "--previous")) (defun rhythmbox-volume-up () "Increase the playback valume" (interactive) (rhythmbox-linux-command "--volume-up")) (defun rhythmbox-volume-down () "Decrease the playback volume" (interactive) (rhythmbox-linux-command "--volume-down")) (global-set-key (kbd "<C-kp-4>") 'rhythmbox-previous) (global-set-key (kbd "<C-kp-6>") 'rhythmbox-next) (global-set-key (kbd "<C-kp-5>") 'rhythmbox-toggle) (global-set-key (kbd "<C-kp-8>") 'rhythmbox-volume-up) (global-set-key (kbd "<C-kp-2>") 'rhythmbox-volume-down)
I only implemented some common controlling functions for the rhythmbox, more can be added with the reference manual of rhythmbox-client.