MPRIS players in KDE

I've switched to Arch Linux and a KDE desktop. I love cairo-dock/compiz but it seems like its hard to get compiz to work consistently any more due to gnome etc... loading their own compositing tools that keep trying to take control.

So far I like Arch a lot, and I'm surprised to find that applications tend to run significantly quicker and use less RAM. Notably Windows in VirtualBox and Office 2010 under WINE which were both pretty slug like in Ubuntu.

Anyway, one of the issues is getting the play/pause button on my keyboard to work with Pithos, its assigned only for Amarok by default under KDE. This post gives a method of creating scripts for play/pause, stop, next, previous and reassigning multimedia keys to run them.