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MPD Album Shuffling

Small program to randomly play and sort albums in the mpd playlist, for people who want to shuffle whole albums and not songs. Uses the MPD_HOST environment variable if it exits. Also accepts host, port and password as command-line parameters.

Usage

To sort the albums randomly.

$ mpd-album-shuffle sort

To play a random album:

$ mpd-album-shuffle play

Help output

usage: mpd-album-shuffle [-h] [-v] [-vv] [-p PORT] [-H HOST] [-P PASSWORD]
                         {play,sort}

Randomly play or sort the albums in the current mpd playlist

positional arguments:
  {play,sort}

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose         increase verbosity of output
  -vv                   turn on debug output (really really verbose)
  -p PORT, --port PORT  the port to connect to
  -H HOST, --host HOST  the hostname to connect to
  -P PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        the password

Install

You can install with pip from github:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/f0rki/mpd-album-shuffle.git

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List python-mpd2 dependency

I didn't see it called out anywhere.

No longer works

not sure when it stopped working but now when I run
python mpd-album-shuffle.py sort
I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "mpd-album-shuffle.py", line 240, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "mpd-album-shuffle.py", line 226, in main
    al = AlbumList(client)
  File "mpd-album-shuffle.py", line 79, in __init__
    self.refresh()
  File "mpd-album-shuffle.py", line 89, in refresh
    self.albums.add(song["album"])
TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'