nextsong 1.0.1

A media playlist library for Python

nextsong is a library and command line executable to support creating media playlists with a complex nested structure. It was developed to be used with ezstream's playlist scripting capability.

Features

• Recursive tree-based structure, where each node is also a playlist with various options for sampling songs
• Command-line executable that prints the next song in the playlist
• Save and load playlists using a validated XML schema
• Pickleable playlist state

Usage

See tests/cases/examples for usage examples. For help on the command line tool, invoke

nextsong --help

Installation

Requires Python 3.7 or higher

From PyPi

Install using pip:

python3 -m pip install nextsong

From source

This process may only work in a Linux environment. First install build dependencies:

python3 -m pip install build

Building the distribution:

git clone https://gitlab.com/samflam/nextsong.git
cd nextsong
make

To install, you can pip install the built wheel in dist or simply run

make install

Testing

From the top level, do:

make test