Is there a different expected format?

sq.playlist_play("/home/crazy/Music/Music\ Together/Tambourine/01-Hello Song.mp3")

Hi,

I had two questions

1. How retriver artist and albums

With http method no problem

requete = {"id":1,"method":"slim.request","params":["-",["artists",0,10000,"tags:lya" ]]} r = requests.post('http://'+LMSIP+':'+str(LMSPORTWEB)+'/jsonrpc.js',data=json.dumps(requete)) result = r.json()['result']['artists_loop']

But with pyLMS i try :

print sc.search('pink floyd', mode='artist')

but i get a 'None' in result

2. How play a song

I must give an item object but how i construct them ?

sq.playlist_play(??)

Thank you, sorry for my ugly english

I think that the version of pyLMS with loadalbum/addalbum has not been pushed into pypi
It still shows version 1.0 from March 2012
https://pypi.org/project/pylms/#history

I've no idea how to commit a change, but here is an addition to player.py:

def playlist_current_track_index(self):
    """Get the number of the current track"""
    return int(self.request('playlist index ?'))+1

I've got a very simple script that prints the currently playing artist to stdout. It's failing when trying to return "Janelle Monáe" (failing on the á, I assume) with the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scripts/now_playing.py", line 29, in <module>
    artist = sq.get_track_artist()
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg/pylms/player.py", line 266, in get_track_artist
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 11-12: ordinal not in range(128)

Forgive me if this is a basic question not having to do with your script (I'm not a python developer), but I do seem to be able to handle unicode in the script (print u"\u03A9" outputs Ω correctly, for example).

Thanks!

see this question http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=431602#p431602

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.s = server.Server()
2.s.connect()
3a.s.request('trackstat getrating 94')
or 3b. s.request('songinfo 0 100 track_id:94')

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
for 3a above 'rating 3 ratingpercentage 60'
instead get '60', or 'ercentage 60', or ''
for 3b expect to get a long string of tag:value pairs starting with track_id:94
instead get 'd:94'... or just '4'... followed by the rest of the string
The amount of truncation is small (<20 bytes) but variable in my experience.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
latest pysqueezecenter (0.92) on Ubuntu 10.10, with squeezebox server 7.5.3

Please provide any additional information below.
(trackstat command above is using trackstat plugin)
I am really pleased to have discovered pysqueezecenter ... thanks for a great package

Hi,
1st of all: thanks to the contributors for this great module.
Although I am pretty new to python, I had following issue:

I installed PyLMS under Python3.6. My application gave me following error-message:
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pylms/player.py", line 607 self.request("sync -") ^ TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation

Not a big deal. When I opened the file player.py with an editor I could see, that usually blank-spaces where used for indentation. But in line 607 it was a tab. All what I had to do was to change the indentation from tab to blank-spaces and the issue was fixed.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
serverobject.request_with_results("favorites items 0 1")

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected: (x, [{...}], True)
(0, [], False) is returned.

What version of the product are you using? ver 0.95 on Python 2.7
On what operating system? on WinXP

Please provide any additional information below.
In server.py the server.request_with_results method the following line raises an exception:
quotedColon = urllib.quote(':')

The problem is that urllib has not been imported. Adding "import urllib" at the top of the method fixes the problem and the correct results are returned.

There's also another reference to urllib farther down in the method:
item[urllib.unquote(key)] = self.__unquote(value)

The following change fixes the problem:
item[self.__unquote(value)] = self.__unquote(value)

If last change is made then the "import urllib" line can be removed and so can the "quotedColon = urllib.quote(':')" line.

• The second line can be removed because quotedColon is set as the first statement in the method.

Thanks for the code,

Mike
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Hi, Thank you for your work on this tool.
I'm trying to get the name of where my Audio Files are kept in a python program but the command returns null? The playlist dir works fine but the audiodir doesn't:

from pylms.server import Server
from pylms.player import Player
sc = Server(hostname="192.168.0.107")
sc.connect()
sq = sc.get_player("b8:27:eb:1f:3d:fb")
print(sq.request("pref playlistdir ?"))
print(sq.request("pref audiodir ?"))

Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks

I noticed that the subscribe/listen capabilities of the Squeezebox Server CLI has not been implemented. Is there a specific reason for this?

hi there,

your code is great, just what I was looking for.
For my webpage (php) that controls my whole house (almost :) ) : lights, WOL to a pc, garage door, ... I want it to control some basic stuff of the LMS (power on, off and play/pause).
For that I need to do a little scripting, but unfortunately I'm not there. Could you help? My guess it is a stupid small thing (newline, quote, ..).
What I got:

function muz_aan(){
$cmd2=shell_exec("pylms --host 192.168.1.250 --device 00:11:00:11:22:03 -r get_power_state");

if ($cmd2 == "True") {
$muz_power_out="LMS is ON";
} else {
$muz_power_out="LMS is OFF";
}
$muz_aan_out="$muz_power_out";
return $muz_aan_out;

print '

Muzieksysteem ' .$muz_aan_out. '

thnaks all!

Assume we have two SqueezeBoxes named 'Kids Bedroom' &
'Parents Bedroom'.

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Server.get_player("rent")
2. Server.get_player("Bedroom")

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

1. Should return None, but returns the player 'Parents Bedroom'
2. Should return None or False, but returns the first found
   player with 'Bedroom' in its name.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

r51 (Aug 14, 2011)

Please provide any additional information below.

Add an option to get_player() to search strictly or loosely.
=>>
def get_player(self, ref=None, strictly=False):
ref = str(ref).lower()
if ref:
for player in self.players:
player_name = str(player.name).lower()
player_ref = str(player.ref).lower()
if ref == player_ref or
(not strictly and ref in player_name) or
(strictly and ref == player_name):
return player