How can I use rhythm box and conky together?

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Published on 2012-10-02T02:52:41Z Indexed on 2012/10/02 3:56 UTC
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I'm still fairly new at this and 12.04 LTS is my first hands on experience with Ubuntu all together. After spending a few weeks and trying to learn the in's and out's of the OS, I'm actually finding it easier to use in my off-time than Windows. However, my question today deals with the following:

I need help in trying to pull information from Rhythm Box in order to display it using Conky.

What I want is the following:

» Album Title

» Song Name

» Artist

» Album Picture

Is there a way to pull these and display them so that they will change as the songs change? I tried my hardest but I'm still a noob when it comes to using terminal and coding.

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