Controlling Rhythmbox/banshee from shell

In Linux all the music player like Banshee / Rhythmbox music player has a dbus interface which provides us a means to control them from commandline like pause, play, next, previous, increase/decrease volume.

I wrote few alias to do so ...

Rhythmbox

alias pauseplay='dbus-send --dest=org.gnome.Rhythmbox /org/gnome/Rhythmbox/Player org.gnome.Rhythmbox.Player.playPause boolean:true'

alias next='dbus-send --dest=org.gnome.Rhythmbox /org/gnome/Rhythmbox/Player org.gnome.Rhythmbox.Player.next'

alias prev='dbus-send --dest=org.gnome.Rhythmbox /org/gnome/Rhythmbox/Player org.gnome.Rhythmbox.Player.previous'

alias incvolume='dbus-send --dest=org.gnome.Rhythmbox /org/gnome/Rhythmbox/Player org.gnome.Rhythmbox.Player.setVolumeRelative double:.1'

alias decvolume='dbus-send --dest=org.gnome.Rhythmbox /org/gnome/Rhythmbox/Player org.gnome.Rhythmbox.Player.setVolumeRelative double:-.1'

Banshee
alias pauseplay='dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.bansheeproject.Banshee /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/PlayerEngine org.bansheeproject.Banshee.PlayerEngine.TogglePlaying'

alias next='dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.bansheeproject.Banshee /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/PlaybackController org.bansheeproject.Banshee.PlaybackController.Next boolean:false'

alias prev='dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.bansheeproject.Banshee /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/PlaybackController org.bansheeproject.Banshee.PlaybackController.Previous boolean:false'



Place these alias in your .bashrc or .bash_aliases file. Now you can control rhythmbox from shell like
pauseplay - play or pause rhythmbox Music player
next - next track
prev - previous track
incvolume - increase volume
decvolume - decrease volume

Change the alias for your convenience ...