Inquiry: How to use a library on project?

[terzano]

HI, I am trying to use your library and was hoping you can give me in the right direction.
The commands rely on stdin for stopping, skipping, etc.
I create a process to start the player but can't seem to get the callbacks to work for ending the player. I can do p.terminate() but I am hoping for a cleaner implementation.

import time
from multiprocessing import Process
from pydora.player import PlayerApp
from pydora.mpg123 import Player

client = py.get_client()
stations = client.get_station_list()
p = Process(target=py.player.play_station, args=(stations[0],))
p.start()

time.sleep(10)

py.player.stop()  # this works
py.player.end_station() # doesn't work 

Thanks in advance,
Diego

[mcrute]

The player was not really designed to be used as a programatic interface to the library, it's more of a reference impementation that you can copy and customize. Take a look at the pandora package instead of the pydora one. The pandora.clientbuilder package provides an easy way to build an instance of pandora.client.APIClient which is the high level Pandora client. Once you start streaming from a station the Pandora API will return links to MP3 files that you can pass to any audio output backend, the pydora player uses mpg123 but you could use something like pyglet too.

[mcrute]

Replying from a mobile phone and hit the wrong button.

[terzano]

Hi Mike, thanks for your advise. That is actually the approach I took, I am currently using pygame as the player (in a Raspberry Pi environment) but will give pyglet a try. Thank you!

[mcrute]

Feel free to open issues or send fixes via pull requests if you find any bugs.