How to get currently playing item in XBMC?

json json-rpc xbmc
MRefaat picture MRefaat · Mar 26, 2014 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

I want to use json/rpc in order to get the currently playing item in the XBMC, I'm using the following commands for all the of player types:

  • to getting the Active player :

    { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.GetActivePlayers", "id": 1 }

  • And to getting the currently playing item due to the above result:

    { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Playlist.GetItems", "params": { "playlistid": playlist.id, "properties": ["title", "rating", "season", "episode", "plot", "runtime", "showtitle", "thumbnail", "year", "genre"] }, "id": 1 }

Now, I have three different cases:

1- if the currently playing item is a "movie": every thing works very efficient.

2- if the currently playing item is a "song": the result set contains not only the currently playing song but all the songs of the album that contains the currently playing song.

3- if the currently playing item is a "tvShow episode": the result set is empty like if there is nothing currently playing.

Answer

Saucier picture Saucier · Mar 28, 2014

This should do it:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "Player.GetItem",
    "params": {
        "properties": [
            "title",
            "album",
            "artist",
            "season",
            "episode",
            "duration",
            "showtitle",
            "tvshowid",
            "thumbnail",
            "file",
            "fanart",
            "streamdetails"
        ],
        "playerid": 1
    },
    "id": "VideoGetItem"
}

Check this out for further API examples.

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