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play_artist

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

NAME

play_artist - Play Roon Library Artist

SYNOPSIS

play_artist [ ARTIST ] [ EXARTIST ]

DESCRIPTION

Plays the Roon Library artist named ARTIST. If no library artist name matches ARTIST exactly, search for Roon Library artist whose name contains the case-sensitive string ARTIST. If there is a match on the search substring then play_artist will play that artist. If more than one Roon Library artist name matches the search substring then play_artist will return a list of matching artist names and play the first one in the list.

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

ARTIST : Provide an artist name, in quotes if it contains spaces, or a case-sensitive substring. A Roon library artist name matching the provided artist name or containing the substring will be played if a match is found.

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 played

EXAMPLES

play_artist Young : Will play Roon library artist name "Young" if it exists. If not then it will play the Roon library artist whose name contains the string "Young" if a match is found.

play_artist Young Neil : Will play Roon library artist name "Young" if it exists. If not then it will play the Roon library artist whose name contains the string "Young" but not "Neil" if a match is found.

AUTHORS

Written by Ronald Record [email protected]

LICENSING

PLAY_ARTIST is distributed under an Open Source license. See the file LICENSE in the PLAY_ARTIST source distribution for information on terms & conditions for accessing and otherwise using PLAY_ARTIST 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/play_artist.py, can be invoked directly as:

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

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

usage: play_artist.py [-h] [-a ARTIST] [-x EXARTIST] [-z ZONE]

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