Play music from command line

[Roanoke]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

I suggest adding a feature to play music from the CLI. Here are some example commands and their intended results:
rhythmbox-client --play "search-string" <--- all results for general search
rhythmbox-client --play-artist "artist" <-- Results of search for artist
rhythmbox-client --play-album "album" <-- Results of search for album
rhythmbox-client --play "search string" --first 5 <--- first five tracks
rhythmbox-client --play "search string" --last 5 <--- last five tracks
rhythmbox-client --playlist "playlist" <-- playlist
This could be integrated with an alarm app to play music at a given time.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Roanoke (alyosha-be-deactivatedaccount)]

Wait, aren't feature suggestions and bugs placed in the same tracker? If not, I'm really sorry (this is a feature suggestion).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you didn't really wrote a clear or understandable english description of your issue or suggestion

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody who cares about that could send the request the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Roanoke (alyosha-be-deactivatedaccount)]

So should I just add it to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

right

[Roanoke (alyosha-be-deactivatedaccount)]

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/post_bug.cgi
Thanks.

[Roanoke (alyosha-be-deactivatedaccount)]

Er, wrong link.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587932

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Reassigning upstream bug since it was marked as a duplicate.

[aaron-bru (aaron-bru)]

As a workaround for playlists, I put this together for my startup:

#!/bin/sh
rhythmbox-client
sleep 10
listid=`dbus-send --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.rhythmbox /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Playlists.GetPlaylists uint32:3 uint32:1 string:Alphabetical boolean:false | grep -o /.*0x[^\"]*`
dbus-send --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.rhythmbox /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Playlists.ActivatePlaylist objpath:$listid

You can replace “uint32:3″ with the number (alphabetical) of the playlist you want. this could be impoved to select by name as well