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list_genre_artists

Ronald Record edited this page Aug 4, 2023 · 1 revision

NAME

list_genre_artists - List Roon Library Artists in Genre

SYNOPSIS

list_genre_artists [ GENRE ] [ ARTIST ] [ EXGENRE ] [ EXARTIST ]

DESCRIPTION

Lists Roon Library artists in the given genre matching the specified artist name or substring. The special string "all" can be used to retrieve all artists by the specified genre. This command is invoked by "roon -l genartists -g genre [-a artist] [-x exartist] [-X exgenre]".

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

GENRE : Provide a genre name, in quotes if it contains spaces, or a case-sensitive substring. All Roon library genre names matching the provided genre name or containing the substring will be searched for artists

ARTIST : Provide an artist name, in quotes if it contains spaces, or a case-sensitive substring. All Roon library artist names matching the provided artist name or containing the substring will be returned

EXGENRE : Provide an genre exclusion string, in quotes if it contains spaces. No Roon library genre names including the provided genre exclusion string will be searched

EXARTIST : Provide an artist exclusion string, in quotes if it contains spaces. No Roon library artist names including the provided artist exclusion string will be listed

EXAMPLES

list_genre_artists Classical all : Will return a list of all Roon library artist names in the Classical genre

list_genre_artists Rock Deep : Will return a list of Roon library artist names in genres whose name contains "Rock", one per line, displaying only those artists that contain the string "Deep"

list_genre_artists Rock Boys Pop : Will return a list of Roon library artist names in genres whose name contains "Rock" but not "Pop", one per line, displaying only those artists that contain the string "Boys"

AUTHORS

Written by Ronald Record [email protected]

LICENSING

LIST_GENRE_ARTISTS is distributed under an Open Source license. See the file LICENSE in the LIST_GENRE_ARTISTS source distribution for information on terms & conditions for accessing and otherwise using LIST_GENRE_ARTISTS and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.

BUGS

Submit bug reports online at: https://github.com/doctorfree/RoonCommandLine/issues

SEE ALSO

clone_pyroon(1), get_core_ip(1), get_zone_info(1), get_zones(1), list_albums(1), list_artist_albums(1), list_artists(1), list_composers(1), list_genre_albums(1), list_genre_artists(1), list_genres(1), list_playlists(1), list_radio(1), list_tags(1), list_zones(1), play_album(1), play_artist(1), play_artist_album(1), play_artist_track(1), play_composer(1), play_genre(1), play_genre_album(1), play_genre_artist(1), play_playlist(1), play_radio(1), play_tag(1), roon(1), set_zone(1), set_zone_group(1), zone_command(1)

Full documentation and sources at: https://github.com/doctorfree/RoonCommandLine

The corresponding Python script, /usr/local/Roon/api/list_genre_artists.py, can be invoked directly as:

python3 /usr/local/Roon/api/list_genre_artists.py [ options]

Where [ options ] are described in the following usage message:

usage: list_genre_artists.py [-h] [-a ARTIST] [-g GENRE] [-X EXARTIST]
                             [-x EXGENRE] [-z ZONE]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a ARTIST, --artist ARTIST
                        artist search term
  -g GENRE, --genre GENRE
                        genre search term
  -X EXARTIST, --exartist EXARTIST
                        artist exclude search term
  -x EXGENRE, --exgenre EXGENRE
                        genre exclude search term
  -z ZONE, --zone ZONE  zone selection
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