Enable playing a playlist from the command line

[lazka]

Original issue 1303 created by johnalexbensin on 2013-12-08T15:11:06.000Z:

As asked in this post:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/quod-libet-development/NTUZw-oBn00

it would be nice to be able to play a playlist from the command line. Syntax like that suggested by Nick here:

https://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/issues/detail?id=1302

would be appropriate.

[lazka]

Comment #1 originally posted by spxxxk on 2013-12-08T15:43:23.000Z:

Even simpler workaround (assuming the name of your playlist doesn't have spaces), $ cat ~/.quodlibet/playlists/myplaylist | sed 's/(.*)/enqueue \1/' >> ~/.quodlibet/control

[lazka]

Comment #2 originally posted by nick.boultbee on 2013-12-11T19:15:17.000Z:

The two ways I had in mind for fixing this are:

1. A(nother) new command e.g. --play-playlist
2. Magic detection of playlists (whatever that implies) into some existing commands, notably --play-file and --enqueue

My preference is (2) if done well, but there are some edge cases...

[lazka]

Comment #3 originally posted by spxxxk on 2013-12-12T13:46:03.000Z:

Isn't this $ quodlibet --enqueue "~playlists=myPlaylist" what op's looking for btw ?

Works for me.

[lazka]

Comment #4 originally posted by johnalexbensin on 2013-12-12T14:14:27.000Z:

I'll try that when I get back home. Does this overwrite the current queue? If I'm playing another playlist or other tracks, will they still be in the queue? (I would prefer them not to be, because ideally I want to just play that playlist).

[lazka]

Comment #5 originally posted by spxxxk on 2013-12-12T14:33:49.000Z:

The choice is yours : quodlibet --unqueue "" && quodlibet --enqueue "~playlists=MyPlaylist" && quodlibet --next

[lazka]

Comment #6 originally posted by nick.boultbee on 2015-02-21T11:56:59.000Z:

Issue #1548 has been merged into this issue.

[ruuter]

$ quodlibet --enqueue "~playlists=myPlaylist" Works fine, but it does not keep the sorting order of the playlist. Can not figure out by what is this method sorting the queued tracks.

[declension]

It's filtering the entire library in "native" order by inclusion on that playlist. Works, but not really ideal (hence this feature request)