Play Track/Album/Playlist on Headless RPi Using Python Code

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Is it possible to have Plexamp play a song/album/playlist from a link (hopefully the “listen.plex.tv” url) on a headless raspberry pi? My goal would be to run a python command (with the url hardcoded) to play a specific album from my library on the headless raspberry pi directly.

For context, I have been looking into making a modern day record player thing, where I would tap a specific NFC chip to my raspberry pi to play an album. I have found guides for a spotify-based version, but I was hoping to use my own Plex music library. I have seen that I can install plexamp on a pi and control it from my phone, but I haven’t seen anything about controlling plexamp with python code.

Thanks in advance!

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the headless pi has an http api so yes, technically it’s possible. look at the log while you control it re lately and you’ll see how to use it.

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For an NFC implementation, you can take a look at this project I put together:

It’s Node, not Python though, so if that matters to you and you’d rather roll your own solution, it might be a good starting point :slightly_smiling_face:

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thanks guys!

I ended up using the Plex API (Table of Contents — Python PlexAPI documentation) so that I could run python code to play specific albums and playlists

If anyone comes across this in the future, I used something like this:

account = MyPlexAccount(<username>, <password>)
plex = account.resource(<servername>).connect()
plex.client(<RaspberryPiClientName>).playMedia(<AlbumGUID>)
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