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jishi / node-sonos-http-api

An HTTP API bridge for Sonos easing automation. Hostable on any node.js capable device, like a raspberry pi or similar.
http://jishi.github.io/node-sonos-http-api/
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Intent genre and imported playlist #417

Open peteypauls opened 7 years ago

peteypauls commented 7 years ago

Hello. Love this and using it with Alexa. Quick question, how can I call intents for genre and imported playlist? My favorites are filling up and I have to keep updating sonos playlists with my new songs. Genre and imported playlist would be ideal for me.

jishi commented 7 years ago

Not sure what you mean by genre and imported playlist. There is support in the http-api for starting Sonos playlists, but limited support for different music services and their different sources. If you could provide more details I might be able to tell you if it's possible to implement at least.

Anything that is exposed by the http-api is possible to create intents for, but I have no clue on how that works since I'm not the author of echo-sonos and don't own any Echo devices (yet, have ordered a few dots now though and waiting for them to be brought to me by a co-worker from the UK).

peteypauls commented 7 years ago

Hello. Sorry about being a noob, but I aam sometimes confused a little by whether node-sonos or echo-sonos is handling an event. I thought that, for example, When I ask echo-sonos to "play frank Sinatra" that it sends a intent to node-sonos to play music by frank Sinatra from my library. Is that correct? If so, I would like to leverage an intent to trigger a specific genre in my music library to play (ex. Play genre "rock").

Regarding playlist, yes I can trigger sonos favorites and playlists. But I ultimately want to trigger the "imported playlists" in the music library section.

On Dec 25, 2016 at 5:11 AM, <Jimmy Shimizu (mailto:notifications@github.com)> wrote:

Not sure what you mean by genre and imported playlist. There is support in the http-api for starting Sonos playlists, but limited support for different music services and their different sources. If you could provide more details I might be able to tell you if it's possible to implement at least.

Anything that is exposed by the http-api is possible to create intents for, but I have no clue on how that works since I'm not the author of echo-sonos and don't own any Echo devices (yet, have ordered a few dots now though and waiting for them to be brought to me by a co-worker from the UK).

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jishi commented 7 years ago

"Genre rock" is something I have never looked at, not sure how the queueing is done but it is not supported at the moment.

Not familiar with the concept of imported playlists, what they represent or how they are handled. I guess they work the same as the genre, meaning it does a live search and just queues everything from the search?

Either way, only way to support this right now is through favorites or Sonos playlists. There is no limitation to the number of playlists, but I do understand the synching issue. How are your imported playlists populated? From iTunes?

peteypauls commented 7 years ago

Hi Jimmy. The playlists are just .m3u's I make sitting on my nas. They are in my sonos library under "imported playlists". I guess this is where echo-sonos takes over. Currently I can use it to request music by artist, song or album. (Ex play Bruce Springsteen or play Thunder Road) and it works. Guess it is leveraging the intelligence behind echo and AWS to do so. Thought I could do the same with music genres, since my music has this tag as well. I reached out to the developer for echo-sonos and he suggested I figure it out using your code first, without using the voice part. So here I am.

On Dec 28, 2016 at 6:49 AM, <Jimmy Shimizu (mailto:notifications@github.com)> wrote:

"Genre rock" is something I have never looked at, not sure how the queueing is done but it is not supported at the moment.

Not familiar with the concept of imported playlists, what they represent or how they are handled. I guess they work the same as the genre, meaning it does a live search and just queues everything from the search?

Either way, only way to support this right now is through favorites or Sonos playlists. There is no limitation to the number of playlists, but I do understand the synching issue. How are your imported playlists populated? From iTunes?

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jishi commented 7 years ago

Okay, I have a better understanding of the question now. That would need to be a new feature or an extension to the music search, I'll keep this issue around as a placeholder for it.

jplourde5 commented 7 years ago

What would you want a new "genre" action to do?

peteypauls commented 7 years ago

Basically play songs by genre. Play genre classic rock would play all those songs. I use this a lot. Currently have to put these all in a playlist if I'm using Echo to control.

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What would you want a new "genre" action to do?

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jplourde5 commented 7 years ago

I'll take a look at it. Should be doable as long as I can capture the genre value from the library data that I get back. I may also have to think about how this might be implemented for the various services. It would be nice if the actions capabilities are consistent.

hofmanitconsultancy commented 7 years ago

Can we use this plug-in with alexa ?

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Hello. Love this and using it with Alexa. Quick question, how can I call intents for genre and imported playlist? My favorites are filling up and I have to keep updating sonos playlists with my new songs. Genre and imported playlist would be ideal for me.

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jplourde5 commented 7 years ago

Yes. echo-sonos uses this api.

peteypauls commented 7 years ago

Hello, just wanted to see if there was anything on this. Wasn't sure if you were able to capture the genre value. I can even add to my own running code if I knew what and where to add.

And the imported playlist situation I use a lot. I have a number of playlists that constantly change. They are made with certain criteria in mediamonkey and then exported into m3u format. I have these in a folder that Sonos scans, so these are placed into my library/imported playlists. I use this because the Sonos playlists are static. I currently save these into Sonos favorites but that has filled up. Please let me know if there is a way for either of these to work. Appreciate all the work done here.