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NAME

play_genre_artist - Play Roon Library Artist in Genre

SYNOPSIS

play_genre_artist [ GENRE ] [ ARTIST ] [ EXGENRE ] [ EXARTIST ]

DESCRIPTION

Plays Roon Library genre's artist matching the specified artist name or substring. This command is invoked by "roon -g genre [-a artist] [-x exgenre] [-X exartist]".

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 and the first one returned will be played.

EXGENRE : Provide a 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 played

EXAMPLES

play_genre_artist Prog Yes : Will play the first artist returned in a list of all Roon library artist names with names containing the string "Yes" by the genres whose name contains "Prog"

play_genre_artist Rock Johnny foo Cash : Will play the first artist returned in a list of all Roon library artist names with names containing the string "Johnny" but not "Cash" by the genres whose name contains "Rock" but not "foo"

AUTHORS

Written by Ronald Record github@ronrecord.com

LICENSING

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

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

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

usage: play_genre_artist.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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