OmniPause

OmniPause is a python program to control media players via DBus.

Description

Have you ever wished you could control the playback of all your running media players with a single command or hotkey? Until now, there was no real good way to do this without spending all of your free time scripting playerctl. Now, with OmniPause, you can use a single, universal command to control all of your media players, with absolutely zero scripting required!

Dependencies

• python3
• dbus-python

Setup

Setup is very simple. Simply run sudo make install in the project directory.

Usage

Using the program is equally simple.

• To pause all running media players, just execute omnipause pause
• To resume playback of media players paused by the program, run omnipause play
• To stop all media players, run omnipause stop
• To skip to the next track on all playing media players, run omnipause next
• To play the previous track on all playing media players, run omnipause previous
• To toggle the playback state of running media players, run omnipause toggle
  • Note: omnipause toggle works by pausing all of the players if any of them are playing. If none of them are currently playing, it resumes playback any players paused by omnipause.

Contributing

This project was written over the course of 4-5 sleep-deprived hours. Additionally, I am not super familiar with Python or DBus. If you find a bug or find my code quality appalling, please submit a pull request.

Licensing

This project is released under GPL 3.0.