Play Podcast using mplayer Ruby and zenity

The following updated to previous post uses the program ffprobe to get the name of the podcast. Also uses clases. Just because. #!/usr/bin/ruby require 'find' #this ruby script lets you access and play your podcasts or any mp4 file from your usb device mounted #in the directory: media in a Linux system (maybe Ubuntu). Notice i have my Ipod directory hard-code. #You can hard code yours or modify this script to pass the directory as a paramter. #Provecho. Javier Isassi MYDIR ='/media/Javier\'s Ipod/iPod_Control/Music/*/*.mp4' #first extend the String class with a method to strip quotation marks or any character for that matter. class String def strip_str(str) gsub(/^#{str}|#{str}$/, '') end end class PodcastPlayer def initialize(dirname) @pcasts = Dir[dirname].sort_by{ |f| File.ctime(f) } @pcastStr = "" @_pcast = "" @titles = [] @idx = 99 end def getPodcastTitle(p) album = "" podcastInfo = `ffprobe -v 0 -show_tags \"#{p}\"` podcastInfo.each do |l| l.chomp! tokens = l.split(/=/) if tokens[0] == "album" album << tokens[1] end end album end def play if @idx != 99 cmd = `mplayer \"#{@pcasts[@idx]}\"` end end def displayPanel @pcasts.each_with_index do |p, index| album = getPodcastTitle(p) if album == "" tokens = p.split(/\//) @pcastStr << "\"#{index}.- #{tokens.last}\"" << " " else @pcastStr << "\"" << "#{index}.- #{album}" << "\" " end end #puts "da string is #{@pcastStr}" @_pcast=`ans=$(zenity --width=120 --height=500 --list --column \"Podcast\" #{@pcastStr} --separator=\":\"); echo $ans` if @_pcast.chomp! == "" puts "goodbye!" else @idx = @_pcast.scan(/\d+/)[0].to_i puts "idx is now #{@idx}" end end def start displayPanel play end end myPcast = PodcastPlayer.new( MYDIR ) myPcast.start