#distnote

distnote is a command line utilty for OS X to observe NSDistributedNotificationCenter messages.

##Usage

distnote [filter]
	filter: a single event that should be captured
	  if you want to capture know when a new Spotify track starts, run:
	  $ distnote com.spotify.client.PlaybackStateChanged

###Examples

$ distnote 
2014-06-13 22:00:27.732 distnote[60819:507] com.spotify.client.PlaybackStateChanged
2014-06-13 22:00:27.732 distnote[60819:507] object(__NSCFString): com.spotify.client
2014-06-13 22:00:27.733 distnote[60819:507] {
    Album = Dynamite;
    "Album Artist" = Jamiroquai;
    Artist = Jamiroquai;
    "Disc Number" = 1;
    Duration = 284;
    "Has Artwork" = 1;
    Name = "Black Devil Car";
    "Play Count" = 0;
    "Playback Position" = 0;
    "Player State" = Playing;
    Popularity = 31;
    Starred = 0;
    "Track ID" = "spotify:track:1zyJTcJt1Q2hQXcERUn99R";
    "Track Number" = 10;

}
2014-06-13 22:00:42.315 distnote[43167:707] MessagesUnreadCountDidChangeNotification
2014-06-13 22:00:42.316 distnote[43167:707] {
    MessagesUnreadCountKey = 1;
}

Only receive iTunes track info:

$distnote com.apple.iTunes.playerInfo
2014-06-13 22:08:44.769 distnote[43167:707] com.apple.iTunes.playerInfo
2014-06-13 22:08:44.769 distnote[43167:707] object(__NSCFString): com.apple.iTunes.player
2014-06-13 22:08:44.770 distnote[43167:707] {
    Album = Braille;
    "Album Artist" = Json;
    "Album Rating" = 0;
    "Album Rating Computed" = 1;
    Artist = Json;
    "Artwork Count" = 1;
    "Disc Count" = 1;
    "Disc Number" = 1;
    Genre = "Hip-Hop/Rap";
    "Library PersistentID" = "-4448374750753146283";
    Location = "file://localhost/Users..";
    Name = "Passing (feat. Serge & K.B.)";
    PersistentID = "-7723761371310118309";
    "Play Count" = 0;
    "Player State" = Playing;
    "Playlist PersistentID" = 554135900408015109;
    "Rating Computed" = 1;
    "Skip Count" = 0;
    "Store URL" = "itms://itunes.com/album?p=657443122&s=143441&i=657443534";
    "Total Time" = 280680;
    "Track Count" = 13;
    "Track Number" = 2;
    Year = 2013;
}