Question

I am using python-mpd to fetch current playing song artist and title. I am able to do that successfully.

The problem is after I stop playing song using mpc stop and than try to fetch current playing song info it shows the last playing song info.

Get song info

>>> client.currentsong()['artist']
'Sean Paul feat. Alexis Jordan'

Now after I use mpc stop

>>> client.currentsong()['artist']
'Sean Paul feat. Alexis Jordan'
>>> 

So, my question is how do I make sure that mpd is currently playing or stopped?

What I need is that after mpc stop when I try to fetch song info it should show None or is there any method like if mpd_playing().

I tried to look at the python-mpd script but no luck.

Answer 1

>>> status = client.status()
>>> status['state']
'play'
# or
'pause'
# or
'stop'

So here is the condition you need:

if client.status()['state'] in ('play', 'pause'):
    #playing
else:
    #stopped