announceroK is a simple script that displays what’s playing on your amaroK player. It is written in Perl and is for the XChat IRC client. I am working on it on and off and thinking about porting it to the irssi IRC client as well.

Download the .pl file and save it to your ~/.xchat2/ directory. Go to XChat > Load Script or Plugin, select the script and hit ok.

Screenshot:

Download current version:
announceroK v.0.5

Changelog
0.5
- Improvement in response, not as slow.
- Rewritten code. Now has some configurable variables.
- “/np” got changed to “/arok” (/nowp was making me want to type nowplaying… :P) because of conflictions with other scripts.
- No more “unknown command” messages in the server window for controls (thanks to kastorff for pointing this out and fixing it).
- Asthetic improvements and nitpicks fixed or improved etc.

0.4:
- Now has “/resume” to resume a paused track.
- Now has “/voldown” and “/volup” to decrease/increase volume by 4%.
- Changed “/amarok” to launch amaroK if it isn’t open (brings forward if it is open). “/np” now displays song in channel.
- Threw in some simple action/message announce, read file for a bit more info.

0.3:
- Improved display. Now works better on different backgrounds.
- Three readily available ways to announce, one with lots of info, two with basics.
- Option to show album, genre, bitrate, and all kinds of other useless crap.
- Added a “/mute” control from XChat.

0.2:
- Added control support from XChat i.e., “/next” etc
- Added “song title BY song artist” instead of “title - artist”
- Added a small help/command menu, “/announcerok”

0.1:
- FIrst version. Simple. Kinda plain. Nothing special.

Previous versions:
announceroK v.0.4
announceroK v.0.3
announceroK v.0.2
announceroK v.0.1

Quick Help–

This script is laggy! The response is slow! Why?
Because of Perl and DCOP, mostly. On my system, the more stuff in my announce script the longer it takes to display. amaroK is also a bit slow in response when I use its interface to shuffle through tracks with its control buttons and also when I do /next; if it does this with you too it’s probably an amaroK issue.

- Why can’t I set a specific volume? Why only 4% up or down?
Well, that is because I do not know how to make the script see user-defined integers (yet!). I really want it though, and it will be in the 0.5 release if I continue at the pace I’m going.

- I don’t like the colors/I get kicked from channels because if the colors, what can I do?
As of version 0.5, it is now super easy to change how it looks. By default the $theme is set to “bold”. If you want colors, change it to “color”.

- God, this thing fucking sucks.
I’m sorry. Feel free to change stuff if you don’t like it, or look for other amaroK scripts. :)