MPRIS toggler

README.md

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 * `yearbox.html` - DokuWiki-type yearbox prototype for Minoteaur (I think this actually contains an off-by-one error somewhere; it isn't what's actually in use).
 * `arbitrary-politics-graphs` - all you need to run your own election campaign.
 * `heavbiome` - some work on biome generation with Perlin noise.
-* `block_scope.py` - Python uses function scoping rather than block scoping. Some dislike this. I made a decorator to switch to block scoping.
+* `block_scope.py` - Python uses function scoping rather than block scoping. Some dislike this. I made a decorator to switch to block scoping.
+* `mpris_smart_toggle.py` - playerctl play-pause sometimes does not play or pause the media I want played or paused (it seems to use some arbitrary selection order). This does it somewhat better by tracking the last thing which was playing.

mpris_smart_toggle.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+from mpris2 import get_players_uri, Player
+from os.path import expanduser
+savepath = expanduser("~/.local/share/last_media.txt")
+players = list(get_players_uri())
+last = None
+try:
+    with open(savepath) as f:
+        last = f.read()
+except:
+    pass
+
+players = list(get_players_uri())
+for player_uri in players:
+    player = Player(dbus_interface_info={"dbus_uri": player_uri})
+    if player.PlaybackStatus == "Playing":
+        player.Pause()
+        with open(savepath, "w") as f:
+            f.write(player_uri)
+        break
+else:
+    if last in players:
+        Player(dbus_interface_info={"dbus_uri": last}).Play()
+    else:
+        player.Play()