Spotify segment (linux)

[luisegarduno]

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Description

The goal of this PR is to create a working segment that displays the song & artist currently playing on the Spotify application via Linux.

I created a solution to fetch information from the Spotify application on Linux (Ubuntu) by using a bash segment to run a command. Having said this, the command is written directly in the theme file (see gist).

About 2 years ago, I forked oh-my-posh with the intention of converting the command into a proper segment, but never got around to getting it to work. Given my limited experience with go, I figured I should ask for help.

Regarding the solution itself, here is the command that retrieves the Spotify information:

$ dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get string:org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player string:Metadata

The command shown above has been tested on several Ubuntu machines and has show to work consistently well. However, I am uncertain on the compatibility across other Linux distributions.

[JanDeDobbeleer]

Cool! This isn't a bad start. Allow me to review that somewhere this week.

[JanDeDobbeleer]

We need to also update the docs, and eventually probably add a source property too specifying dbus or something else (but that's not relevant now)

[luisegarduno]

I'm able to get the tests to pass locally, however when testing the binary, the spotify segment is not showing.

[JanDeDobbeleer]

I'm able to get the tests to pass locally, however when testing the binary, the spotify segment is not showing.

You can use oh-my-posh debug to show what’s going on.

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@luisegarduno any update?

[luisegarduno]

Thanks for tip, oh-my-posh debug has been very helpful.

I've made some progress in my latest commit, having {{.Artist}} - {{.Track}} now work.

The workflow will not get far though, as I deleted spotify_wsl & spotify_wsl_test (locally) so that I could get spotify_linux to build - matching boolean function names "Enabled". I assume this may be an easy fix, as I just need to figure out a way to separate the builds for wsl & linux since //go:build wsl isn't a thing yet.