API command line for start Playing a specific Folder from NAS share?

[dvo]

you still have to close bracked…>>>> }’
but this is for playing a folder

[Mounter01]

It does not work. What should I fix here?

[ashthespy]

For clues - when you select and have this folder playing, look at your <volumio-ip>/dev page and see what the correct uri and path attributes need to be!

[Mounter01]

This path I have entered is an example. But of course the path I enter is correct. But one thing: I can not enter accented letters while editing the triggerhapy config file trough SSH: “Én Zenéim” would convert to: " ^ n Zen ^ im" when entered in the command list. What to do whit this?

[Wheaten]

I don’t think this is possible with Volumio. You need to load a queue for playing. This feature was request some time ago.

Play File / Play Folder

Hi All ! As all we know, it is very unconfortable to play rapidly files and folders which are not a part of music library… To play new files / folders, first we need to add them to scan path of music library ( phisically copy the files / folders), we can copy them to USB, network drive or internal memory. Then we need to rescan at least this part of library. After that is possible to play a new files / folders. Another player solve this issue with Play Files / Play Folders … My question is : …

[ashthespy]

Are you sure – isn’t there a folder view in one of the menus?
Or does it only let you browse files, and then let you add each track from a folder manually?

[Mounter01]

There’s a Folder view from Music Library NAS->My Share → here it lists all the folders the main Shared Folder has and I can play the entire folder by clicking the play icon in the left corner of the Folder’s name. As I wrote this is already form the Music Library section, so I have all these Folders and files scanned in already.

[Wheaten]

yes I know, and it will built a complete queue list for that folder. But I don’t see this function in the API’s.
I can see play an Item (single track) or a list, but that is what you have to pass as parameter

[ashthespy]

Unfortunately, there isn’t much documentation for these parts.
Your best bet is to open up the log on ssh, click on the UI and see what commands are being called.

[dvo]

i got from rest api :
radio: play station / addtoqueue
playlist: playplaylist
youtube: song / channel / playlist / addtoqueue of all
mixcloud: song / addtoqueue
soundcloud: song / addtoqueue

seek0 / prev / stop / play / next / vol +5 / vol -5

all for streamdeck

[Mounter01]

How to display the log with ssh?

[Wheaten]

Volumio uses Explode in the background to harvest the folder and make it available to mpd. This function is not available through the API’s.
You can create a bypass, creating a playlist and load that by API, but that is a bit cumber sum to accomplish.

info: CorePlayQueue::clearPlayQueue
info: CorePlayQueue::saveQueue
info: CoreCommandRouter::volumioPushState
info: CoreCommandRouter::volumioPushQueue
info: CoreStateMachine::addQueueItems
info: CorePlayQueue::addQueueItems
info: Adding Item to queue: music-library/NAS/QNAP/Morgan Wade
info: Exploding uri music-library/NAS/QNAP/Morgan Wade in service mpd
info:
---------------------------- MPD announces state update: player
info: ALBUMART /albumart?cacheid=487&web=Morgan%20Wade/Reckless/mega&path=%2Fmnt%2FNAS%2FQNAP%2FMorgan%20Wade%2F(2021)%20-%20Reckless%2F0101%20-%20Morgan%20Wade%20-%20Wilder%20Days.flac&metadata=false
info: URI /mnt/NAS/QNAP/Morgan Wade/(2021) - Reckless/0101 - Morgan Wade - Wilder Days.flac
info: ALBUMART /albumart?cacheid=487&web=Morgan%20Wade/Reckless/mega&path=%2Fmnt%2FNAS%2FQNAP%2FMorgan%20Wade%2F(2021)%20-%20Reckless%2F0102%20-%20Morgan%20Wade%20-%20Matches%20and%20Metaphors.flac&metadata=false
info: URI /mnt/NAS/QNAP/Morgan Wade/(2021) - Reckless/0102 - Morgan Wade - Matches and Metaphors.flac
info: ALBUMART /albumart?cacheid=487&web=Morgan%20Wade/Reckless/mega&path=%2Fmnt%2FNAS%2FQNAP%2FMorgan%20Wade%2F(2021)%20-%20Reckless%2F0103%20-%20Morgan%20Wade%20-%20Other%20Side.flac&metadata=false
info: URI /mnt/NAS/QNAP/Morgan Wade/(2021) - Reckless/0103 - Morgan Wade - Other Side.flac
info: ALBUMART /albumart?cacheid=487&web=Morgan%20Wade/Reckless/mega&path=%2Fmnt%2FNAS%2FQNAP%2FMorgan%20Wade%2F(2021)%20-%20Reckless%2F0104%20-%20Morgan%20Wade%20-%20Don't%20Cry.flac&metadata=false
info: URI /mnt/NAS/QNAP/Morgan Wade/(2021) - Reckless/0104 - Morgan Wade - Don't Cry.flac
info: ALBUMART /albumart?cacheid=487&web=Morgan%20Wade/Reckless/mega&path=%2Fmnt%2FNAS%2FQNAP%2FMorgan%20Wade%2F(2021)%20-%20Reckless%2F0105%20-%20Morgan%20Wade%20-%20Mend.flac&metadata=false
info: URI /mnt/NAS/QNAP/Morgan Wade/(2021) - Reckless/0105 - Morgan Wade - Mend.flac
info: ALBUMART /albumart?cacheid=487&web=Morgan%20Wade/Reckless/mega&path=%2Fmnt%2FNAS%2FQNAP%2FMorgan%20Wade%2F(2021)%20-%20Reckless%2F0106%20-%20Morgan%20Wade%20-%20Last%20Cigarette.flac&metadata=false
info: URI /mnt/NAS/QNAP/Morgan Wade/(2021) - Reckless/0106 - Morgan Wade - Last Cigarette.flac
info: ALBUMART /albumart?cacheid=487&web=Morgan%20Wade/Reckless/mega&path=%2Fmnt%2FNAS%2FQNAP%2FMorgan%20Wade%2F(2021)%20-%20Reckless%2F0107%20-%20Morgan%20Wade%20-%20Take%20Me%20Away.flac&metadata=false
info: URI /mnt/NAS/QNAP/Morgan Wade/(2021) - Reckless/0107 - Morgan Wade - Take Me Away.flac
info: ALBUMART /albumart?cacheid=487&web=Morgan%20Wade/Reckless/mega&path=%2Fmnt%2FNAS%2FQNAP%2FMorgan%20Wade%2F(2021)%20-%20Reckless%2F0108%20-%20Morgan%20Wade%20-%20Reckless.flac&metadata=false
info: URI /mnt/NAS/QNAP/Morgan Wade/(2021) - Reckless/0108 - Morgan Wade - Reckless.flac
info: ALBUMART /albumart?cacheid=487&web=Morgan%20Wade/Reckless/mega&path=%2Fmnt%2FNAS%2FQNAP%2FMorgan%20Wade%2F(2021)%20-%20Reckless%2F0109%20-%20Morgan%20Wade%20-%20Northern%20Air.flac&metadata=false
info: URI /mnt/NAS/QNAP/Morgan Wade/(2021) - Reckless/0109 - Morgan Wade - Northern Air.flac
info: ALBUMART /albumart?cacheid=487&web=Morgan%20Wade/Reckless/mega&path=%2Fmnt%2FNAS%2FQNAP%2FMorgan%20Wade%2F(2021)%20-%20Reckless%2F0110%20-%20Morgan%20Wade%20-%20Met%20You.flac&metadata=false
info: URI /mnt/NAS/QNAP/Morgan Wade/(2021) - Reckless/0110 - Morgan Wade - Met You.flac

[dvo]

you could create it as a Queue playlist and save it as playlist and call the playlist with a curl
command

and for your remote u could try this :

USB remote control?

I used a g40s remote which has a mini USB dongle RF receiver. I think It worked out of the box for the commands next, previous, pause/play and volume but I couldn’t get the power off to work initially. I tried a number of methods to get power off to work but none would. So I ended up using this method under the heading ‘Headless or No Desktop Keybindings’ which worked. I then edited the audio.conf file as follows #VOLUMIO TRIGGERHAPPY CONFIGURATION FILE LOCATED AT /etc/triggerhappy/triggers…

[Wheaten]

Seems possible, to add the complete folder.
I believe there was a plugin tpo play the last played song, so if you set the list to random, you might even not to program anything.

[Mounter01]

I have added the folders as Playlists and it works through browser:
volumio.local/api/v1/commands/?cmd=playplaylist&name=Remixes

But not with SSH (so locally from the triggerhapy file):
curl localhost:3000/api/v1/commands/?cmd=playplaylist&name=Remixes

So what’s the trick here?

[ashthespy]

@Mounter01

So what’s the trick here?

quoting?

 curl "localhost:3000/api/v1/commands/?cmd=playplaylist&name=Remixes"

[Mounter01]

Yes at the end I have figured out the missing quote sings. Finally it works this way! Thank you everyone have tried to solve this…

[Mounter01]

Oh one more thing: I also want to do this with a couple of webradio station. Now how to do the same with webradios?

[ashthespy]

Look at the thread that started this all

[GUIDE] Keyboard shortcuts with triggerhappy

Quite good hint here! This is actually really powerfull, you can even add whole spotify playlists or radio Urls: #RADIO PARADISE KEY_1 1 /usr/bin/curl -i --header "Content-Type: application/json" localhost:3000/api/v1/replaceAndPlay --data '{ "service": "webradio", "type": "webradio", "title": "RadioParadise", "uri": "https://stream.radioparadise.com/aac-320", "albumart": "https://radioparadise.com/graphics/logo_flat_350x103.png"}' #RADIO PARADISE ROCK KEY_2 1 /usr/bin/curl -i --header "…

[Mounter01]

Works! Had to dig deep in the /dev section to find all parameters properly, but finally it did it. Thanks again! One more thing to mention: the Previous/Next Track button now isn’t working as expected when playing from the Playlists: it starts to play some songs randomly, not really the previous/next one in the Playlist. Is something I could do about to get the proper functionality back?

Edit: It was only, that the Randomizer option was turned on somehow. I switched it off and now everything seams normal.