Fetching song duration related info

[UtkarshVerma]

As far as I know, playerctl doesn't have any commands for fetching the song length(full duration). While playerctl position returns the current position of playback in seconds, it would be better if it were formattable, in (minute):(second) format.
It would be great to implement this.

[acrisci]

You can get it with a command like playerctl metadata mpris:length, but the time units are a little weird.

How do you propose to do the formatting?

[UtkarshVerma]

I am currently using a bash script for the formatting but it would be better if playerctl also formatted the time like audtool does, i.e. 3:40(min:sec).
Link to my script: https://github.com/UtkarshVerma/scripts/blob/master/formatTime

Usage: https://github.com/UtkarshVerma/i3blocklets/blob/master/music

[acrisci]

We've got the basics for this feature in #73 now with the format parser.

I know it's a bit over the top, but I think it would be cool if we put helper functions in the little template language.

So like this:

playerctl metadata --format 'position: {{ minutes(mpris:length) }}:{{ seconds(mpris:length) }}'

[acrisci]

eh, maybe simpler like playerctl metadata --format 'position: {{ formatduration(mpris:length) }}'.

[UtkarshVerma]

@acrisci I just noticed this issue and the other ones. Sorry for being unresponsive. I just have stopped developing temporarily. Glad to know you implemented it. 😄