soco.plugins.wimp module

Plugin for the Wimp music service (Service ID 20)

class soco.plugins.wimp.Wimp(soco, username, retries=3, timeout=3.0)[source]

Class that implements a Wimp plugin.

Note

There is an (apparent) in-consistency in the use of one data type from the Wimp service. When searching for playlists, the XML returned by the Wimp server indicates, that the type is an ‘album list’, and it thus suggest, that this type is used for a list of tracks (as expected for a playlist), and this data type is reported to be playable. However, when browsing the music tree, the Wimp server will return items of ‘album list’ type, but in this case it is used for a list of albums and it is not playable. This plugin maintains this (apparent) in-consistency to stick as close to the reported data as possible, so search for playlists returns MSAlbumList that are playable and while browsing the content tree the MSAlbumList items returned to you are not playable.

Note

Wimp in some cases lists tracks that are not available. In these cases, while it will correctly report these tracks as not being playable, the containing data structure like e.g. the album they are on may report that they are playable. Trying to add one of these to the queue will return a SoCoUPnPException with error code ‘802’.

Initialize the plugin.

Parameters
  • soco – The soco instance to retrieve the session ID for the music service

  • username (str) – The username for the music service

  • retries (int) – The number of times to retry before giving up

  • timeout (float) – The time to wait for the post to complete, before timing out. The Wimp server seems either slow to respond or to make the queries internally, so the timeout should probably not be shorter than 3 seconds.

Type

soco.SoCo

Note

If you are using a phone number as the username and are experiencing problems connecting, then try to prepend the area code (no + or 00). I.e. if your phone number is 12345678 and you are from denmark, then use 4512345678. This must be set up the same way in the Sonos device. For details see here (In Danish)

property name

Return the human read-able name for the plugin

property username

Return the username.

property service_id

Return the service id.

property description

Return the music service description for the DIDL metadata on the form 'SA_RINCON5127_...self.username...'

get_tracks(search, start=0, max_items=100)[source]

Search for tracks.

See get_music_service_information for details on the arguments

get_albums(search, start=0, max_items=100)[source]

Search for albums.

See get_music_service_information for details on the arguments

get_artists(search, start=0, max_items=100)[source]

Search for artists.

See get_music_service_information for details on the arguments

get_playlists(search, start=0, max_items=100)[source]

Search for playlists.

See get_music_service_information for details on the arguments.

Note

Un-intuitively this method returns MSAlbumList items. See note in class doc string for details.

get_music_service_information(search_type, search, start=0, max_items=100)[source]

Search for music service information items.

Parameters
  • search_type (str) – The type of search to perform, possible values are: ‘artists’, ‘albums’, ‘tracks’ and ‘playlists’

  • search (str) – The search string to use

  • start (int) – The starting index of the returned items

  • max_items (int) – The maximum number of returned items

Note

Un-intuitively the playlist search returns MSAlbumList items. See note in class doc string for details.

browse(ms_item=None)[source]

Return the sub-elements of item or of the root if item is None

Parameters

item – Instance of sub-class of soco.data_structures.MusicServiceItem. This object must have item_id, service_id and extended_id properties

Note

Browsing a MSTrack item will return itself.

Note

This plugin cannot yet set the parent ID of the results correctly when browsing soco.data_structures.MSFavorites and soco.data_structures.MSCollection elements.

static id_to_extended_id(item_id, item_class)[source]

Return the extended ID from an ID.

Parameters
  • item_id (str) – The ID of the music library item

  • cls (Sub-class of soco.data_structures.MusicServiceItem) – The class of the music service item

The extended id can be something like 00030020trackid_22757082 where the id is just trackid_22757082. For classes where the prefix is not known returns None.

static form_uri(item_content, item_class)[source]

Form the URI for a music service element.

Parameters
  • item_content (dict) – The content dict of the item

  • item_class (Sub-class of soco.data_structures.MusicServiceItem) – The class of the item