Mopidy tool for controlling playback from command line
Install by running:
pip install mopidycli
Or, if available, install the Debian/Ubuntu package from apt.mopidy.com.
Now export the ip address of your mopidy server if it is not running on the same machine. Like this:
export MOPIDYSERVER=192.168.0.100:6680
After installation, you'll get the following scripts:
mopidy-next: Change to the next track.
mopidy-pause: Pause playback.
mopidy-play: play the currently active track.
mopidy-previous: Change to the previous track.
mopidy-resume: If paused, resume playing the current track.
mopidy-shuffle: Shuffles the entire tracklist.
mopidy-state: Get The playback state: 'playing', 'paused', or 'stopped'.
If PLAYING or PAUSED, show information on current track.
mopidy-tracklist: Get tracklist
mopidy-play-backend-uri: Play a specific backend uri, like 'plex:album:6247' or 'spotify:track:XXX'
- Original author: @havardgulldahl
- Contributors
- New command, mopidy-play-backend-uri, to play an album or track by backend uri.
- Initial release.
- Basic control of a given Mopidy server.