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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/395967 Title: Play music from command line Status in The Rhythmbox Music Management Application: New Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rhythmbox/+bug/395967/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
