Poweramp - music artist

[James Knott]

As its most unlikely that a variable for music artist will ever be added to Tasker, does anyone know if I can get this from Power amp to input into Tasker as a variable?

Many thanks
Motorola Defy with CM10

[Matt R]

The way I do it is from the notification that occurs when the music starts or the song changes (using a notification event context). You might need to enable those notifications in the power amp preferences. A %MARTIST would really be useful to go along with %MTRACK.

Matt

[James Knott]

Thanks Matt...exactly what I was looking for!

[Gavin Bannerman]

Hi, I'm new to tasker and I'm having trouble setting up the method you're talking about, could you break it down into simple steps for me please? I just want to use the notification placed by Shuttle Music Player to get the name of the artist!

Thanks

[Jay M]

Use media utilities man you can get artist track album and even coverart

Jay M

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[Pent]

With Tasker 4.2u3 you can listen for the poweramp track changed broadcast )action

com.maxmpz.audioplayer.TRACK_CHANGED) with the Intent Received event. Look at %track in the corresponding task, it has all the details.

Pent

[Pent]

p.s. other poweramp api details here:

https://github.com/maxmpz/powerampapi/blob/master/poweramp_api_lib/src/com/maxmpz/poweramp/player/PowerampAPI.java

Pent

[Spencer Spooner]

Forgive me for being a total moron and not understanding like... super basic coding.

My question is how to return only part of that bundle of information that comes from %track. for example only the "path".

[Mike Wilson]

I use the PowerAmp intent in my Digital Dash project.

My write-up has some code that might help.  You can find it here:

http://mikesgeneralblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/digital-dash-documentation-part-5-music.html

[David]

Great info, thanks. I see they also have an album art changed action, but I can't figure out how to get the aaPath into a variable.

Could you please point me in the right direction?

Thanks