spotipy VS python-plexapi

If you can program in Python, you can use Spotipy for this.

It's a bug in the library that you are using: https://github.com/plamere/spotipy/issues/835

It makes the raspberry pi a spotify connect device, im now able to connect spotify to the raspberry pi, which plays everything on the hifi system. For using a button is use this repo: https://github.com/plamere/spotipy/

Hi, I'm writing an app in Python using spotipy (https://github.com/plamere/spotipy).

The python script will connect to your Spotify and will retrieve your playlists using spotipy package.

I found an app called Spotipy. But looking at the examples I can only see an option for showing new releases from a given artist. Maybe ask nicely in the issues and see if it can list new releases/additions for a certain day.

Oh shit! I never even bothered to look because I asked a long time ago and was given and emphatic no. It looks like there is a playlist class. So I'll have to play with that and see what it can do.

I wanted a way to pick a random album from a collection and tell the Plexamp client connected to my speakers to play it. I wrote a detailed post about a simple way and a fancy way to do this using the unofficial Python Plex library.

It is the library agent change this guy was on the right track https://github.com/pkkid/python-plexapi/issues/534

Sources: https://python-plexapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://github.com/pkkid/python-plexapi

There's no in the box option for that, but you can easily make something that can do it with things like the python plex api. Get random movie, send play command with offset for some random point. Sleep some random amount of time. Send a stop command and repeat the previous steps.

You should look into the python PlexAPI wrapper library. Here is an equivalent script using PlexAPI.

I am not sure if there is an official way most people do this, but I think the best bet would be to use data directly from plex - https://python-plexapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/server.html#plexapi.server.PlexServer.sessions to loop through every so often and get a list of current sessions (currently playing media). Once that goes empty start a timer for shutdown. If a session starts again end the shutdown, you could even look at to see if something is "paused" and have a different shutdown time for paused vs nothing playing if you really wanted.