I'm trying to solve a bug in this plugin. I want to show the sidebar only when playing music (not podcast or radio). My problem is I don't know what's the user is listening to. Can someone provide me with a way to do that? Thanks.
To get what is currently playing you'll need to:
Lets go step-by-step
Rhythmbox Shell
The shell is a property of the plugin - self.props.shell. So lets save the shell with self.shell = self.props.shell
Rhythmbox Shell Player
The shell player is part of the shell properties - player = self.shell.props.shell_player
Playing Entry
The playing entry is found by interrogating the shell-player
`entry = player.get_playing_entry()
Entry Type
From the entry you can get the entry-type:
entrytype = entry.get_entry_type()
From the documentation - you'll probably just need to test that the entry-type is Song i.e. entrytype.get_name() - other types are used for additional play streams.