#!/usr/bin/ruby

# by Brian Carper
# http://briancarper.net
#
# This script gets the currently playing artist
# and title from Amarok via DCOP.
#
# We trap STDERR because Amarok dumps an error to
# STDERR if nothing is playing, and I don't want 
# conky to spew error text into my console (or 
# anywhere else).

# Wrap to 35 characters at most, but break only
# at word boundaries.
def wrap(text)
    text.gsub(/[^\n]{1,35}(?=\s|$)/, "\\0\n")
end

stderr_bak = STDERR
STDERR.reopen('/dev/null', 'w')
output = `dcop amarok player nowPlaying`

if output.match(/\S/) then
    puts wrap(output)
else
    puts 'Nothing.'
end
STDERR = stderr_backup