Console Issues

[samohd]

I'm exploring options to make a small program to start sonos playing a random song from the full library. The equivalent of going into the Android App, selecting Browse > Music Library > Songs... and clicking Shuffle. So, I was trying the Console sample as a starting point, and noticed that:

• If there's nothing in Sonos' playlist... Issuing the Play command will say that it is playing, even though it won't be.
• There doesn't seem to be a way to actually get songs in the playlist.
• setplaymode doesn't seem to do anything, or at least I can't figure out what state Sonos needs to be in for it to do anything.