Audio::MPD - class to talk to MPD (Music Player Daemon) servers


Audio-MPD documentation Contained in the Audio-MPD distribution.

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NAME

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Audio::MPD - class to talk to MPD (Music Player Daemon) servers

VERSION

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version 1.111200

SYNOPSIS

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    use Audio::MPD;

    my $mpd = Audio::MPD->new;
    $mpd->play;
    sleep 10;
    $mpd->next;

DESCRIPTION

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Audio::MPD gives a clear object-oriented interface for talking to and controlling MPD (Music Player Daemon) servers. A connection to the MPD server is established as soon as a new Audio::MPD object is created.

Since mpd is still in 0.x versions, Audio::MPD sticks to latest mpd (0.15 as time of writing) protocol & behaviour, and does not try to maintain backward compatibility.

Note that the module will by default connect to mpd before sending any command, and will disconnect after the command has been issued. This scheme is far from optimal, but allows us not to care about timeout disconnections. Because of that, the idle command (new in mpd 0.14) is not (and will not) be supported in Audio::MPD. This will be implemented in POE::Component::Client::MPD.

/!\ Note that Audio::MPD is using high-level, blocking sockets. This means that if the mpd server is slow, or hangs for whatever reason, or even crash abruptly, the program will be hung forever in this sub. The POE::Component::Client::MPD module is way safer - you're advised to use it instead of Audio::MPD. Or you can try to set conntype to $REUSE (see Audio::MPD constructor for more details), but you would be then on your own to deal with disconnections.

Searching the collection

To search the collection, use the collection() accessor, returning the associated Audio::MPD::Collection object. You will then be able to call:

    $mpd->collection->all_songs;

See Audio::MPD::Collection documentation for more details on available methods.

Handling the playlist

To update the playlist, use the playlist() accessor, returning the associated Audio::MPD::Playlist object. You will then be able to call:

    $mpd->playlist->clear;

See Audio::MPD::Playlist documentation for more details on available methods.

ATTRIBUTES

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host

The hostname where MPD is running. Defaults to environment var MPD_HOST, then to 'localhost'. Note that MPD_HOST can be of the form password@host:port (each of password@ or :port can be omitted).

port

The port that MPD server listens to. Defaults to environment var MPD_PORT, then to parsed MPD_HOST (cf above), then to 6600.

password

The password to access special MPD functions. Defaults to environment var MPD_PASSWORD, then to parsed MPD_HOST (cf above), then to empty string.

conntype

Change how the connection to mpd server is handled. It should be of a CONNTYPE type (cf Audio::MPD::Types). Use either the reuse string to reuse the same connection or once to open a new connection per command (default).

METHODS

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new

    my $mpd = Audio::MPD->new( \%opts );

This is the constructor for Audio::MPD. One can specify any of the attributes (cf above).

CONTROLLING THE SERVER

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ping

    $mpd->ping;

Sends a ping command to the mpd server.

version

    my $version = $mpd->version;

Return mpd's version number as advertised during connection. Note that mpd returns protocol version when connected. This protocol version can differ from the real mpd version. eg, mpd version 0.13.2 is "speaking" and thus advertising version 0.13.0.

kill

    $mpd->kill;

Send a message to the MPD server telling it to shut down.

set_password

    $mpd->set_password( [$password] );

Change password used to communicate with MPD server to $password. Empty string is assumed if $password is not supplied.

updatedb

    $mpd->updatedb( [$path] );

Force mpd to recan its collection. If $path (relative to MPD's music directory) is supplied, MPD will only scan it - otherwise, MPD will rescan its whole collection.

urlhandlers

    my @handlers = $mpd->urlhandlers;

Return an array of supported URL schemes.

HANDLING VOLUME & OUTPUT

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volume

    $mpd->volume( [+][-]$volume );

Sets the audio output volume percentage to absolute $volume. If $volume is prefixed by '+' or '-' then the volume is changed relatively by that value.

outputs

    my @outputs = $mpd->outputs( );

Return a list of Audio::MPD::Common::Outputs with all outputs available within MPD.

output_enable

    $mpd->output_enable( $output );

Enable the specified audio output. $output is the ID of the audio output.

output_disable

    $mpd->output_disable( $output );

Disable the specified audio output. $output is the ID of the audio output.

RETRIEVING INFO FROM CURRENT STATE

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stats

    my $stats = $mpd->stats;

Return an Audio::MPD::Common::Stats object with the current statistics of MPD. See the associated pod for more information.

status

    my $status = $mpd->status;

Return an Audio::MPD::Common::Status object with various information on current MPD server settings. See the associated pod for more information.

current

    my $song = $mpd->current;

Return an Audio::MPD::Common::Item::Song representing the song currently playing.

song

    my $song = $mpd->song( [$song] );

Return an Audio::MPD::Common::Item::Song representing the song number $song. If $song is not supplied, returns the current song.

songid

    my $song = $mpd->songid( [$songid] );

Return an Audio::MPD::Common::Item::Song representing the song with id $songid. If $songid is not supplied, returns the current song.

ALTERING MPD SETTINGS

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repeat

    $mpd->repeat( [$repeat] );

Set the repeat mode to $repeat (1 or 0). If $repeat is not specified then the repeat mode is toggled.

random

    $mpd->random( [$random] );

Set the random mode to $random (1 or 0). If $random is not specified then the random mode is toggled.

fade

    $mpd->fade( [$seconds] );

Enable crossfading and set the duration of crossfade between songs. If $seconds is not specified or $seconds is 0, then crossfading is disabled.

CONTROLLING PLAYBACK

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play

    $mpd->play( [$song] );

Begin playing playlist at song number $song. If no argument supplied, resume playing.

playid

    $mpd->playid( [$songid] );

Begin playing playlist at song ID $songid. If no argument supplied, resume playing.

pause

    $mpd->pause( [$state] );

Pause playback. If $state is 0 then the current track is unpaused, if $state is 1 then the current track is paused.

Note that if $state is not given, pause state will be toggled.

stop

    $mpd->stop;

Stop playback.

next

    $mpd->next;

Play next song in playlist.

prev

    $mpd->prev;

Play previous song in playlist.

seek

    $mpd->seek( $time, [$song]);

Seek to $time seconds in song number $song. If $song number is not specified then the perl module will try and seek to $time in the current song.

seekid

    $mpd->seekid( $time, $songid );

Seek to $time seconds in song ID $songid. If $song number is not specified then the perl module will try and seek to $time in the current song.

SEE ALSO

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You can find more information on the mpd project on its homepage at http://www.musicpd.org.wikia.com>.

Original code (2005) by Tue Abrahamsen <tue.abrahamsen@gmail.com>, documented in 2006 by Nicholas J. Humfrey <njh@aelius.com>.

You can look for information on this module at:

* Search CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Audio-MPD

* See open / report bugs

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Audio-MPD

* Mailing-list

http://groups.google.com/group/audio-mpd

* Git repository

http://github.com/jquelin/audio-mpd.git

* AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

http://annocpan.org/dist/Audio-MPD

* CPAN Ratings

http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Audio-MPD

AUTHOR

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Jerome Quelin

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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Audio-MPD documentation Contained in the Audio-MPD distribution.

#
# This file is part of Audio-MPD
#
# This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Jerome Quelin.
#
# This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
# the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
#
use 5.008;
use warnings;
use strict;

package Audio::MPD;
BEGIN {
  $Audio::MPD::VERSION = '1.111200';
}
# ABSTRACT: class to talk to MPD (Music Player Daemon) servers

use Audio::MPD::Common::Item;
use Audio::MPD::Common::Stats;
use Audio::MPD::Common::Status;
use Audio::MPD::Common::Output;
use Encode;
use IO::Socket;
use Moose;
use MooseX::Has::Sugar;
use MooseX::SemiAffordanceAccessor;

use Audio::MPD::Collection;
use Audio::MPD::Playlist;
use Audio::MPD::Types;



has conntype   => ( ro, isa=>'CONNTYPE', default=>'once'  );
has host       => ( ro, lazy_build );
has password   => ( rw, lazy_build, trigger=>sub { $_[0]->ping } );
has port       => ( ro, lazy_build );

has collection => ( ro, lazy_build, isa=>'Audio::MPD::Collection' );
has playlist   => ( ro, lazy_build, isa=>'Audio::MPD::Playlist'   );
has version    => ( rw );

has _socket    => ( rw, isa=>'IO::Socket::INET' );


#--
# initializer & lazy builders


sub BUILD {
    my $self = shift;

    # create the connection if conntype is set to $REUSE
    $self->_connect_to_mpd_server if $self->conntype eq 'reuse';

    # try to issue a ping to test connection - this can die.
    $self->ping;
}

#
# my ($passwd, $host, $port) = _parse_env_var();
#
# parse MPD_HOST environment variable, and extract its components. the
# canonical format of MPD_HOST is passwd@host:port.
#
sub _parse_env_var {
    return (undef, undef, undef) unless defined $ENV{MPD_HOST};
    return ($1, $2, $3)    if $ENV{MPD_HOST} =~ /^([^@]+)\@([^:@]+):(\d+)$/; # passwd@host:port
    return ($1, $2, undef) if $ENV{MPD_HOST} =~ /^([^@]+)\@([^:@]+)$/;       # passwd@host
    return (undef, $1, $2) if $ENV{MPD_HOST} =~ /^([^:@]+):(\d+)$/;          # host:port
    return (undef, $ENV{MPD_HOST}, undef);
}

sub _build_host     { return ( _parse_env_var() )[1] || 'localhost'; }
sub _build_port     { return $ENV{MPD_PORT}     || ( _parse_env_var() )[2] || 6600; }
sub _build_password { return $ENV{MPD_PASSWORD} || ( _parse_env_var() )[0] || '';   }

sub _build_collection { Audio::MPD::Collection->new( _mpd => $_[0] ); }
sub _build_playlist   { Audio::MPD::Playlist  ->new( _mpd => $_[0] ); }


#--
# Private methods


#
# $mpd->_connect_to_mpd_server;
#
# This method connects to the mpd server. It can die on several conditions:
#  - if the server cannot be reached,
#  - if it's not an mpd server,
#  - or if the password is incorrect,
#
sub _connect_to_mpd_server {
    my ($self) = @_;

    # try to connect to mpd.
    my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(
        PeerAddr => $self->host,
        PeerPort => $self->port,
    )
    or die "Could not create socket: $!\n";

    # parse version information.
    my $line = $socket->getline;
    chomp $line;
    die "Not a mpd server - welcome string was: [$line]\n"
        if $line !~ /^OK MPD (.+)$/;
    $self->set_version($1);

    # send password.
    if ( $self->password ) {
        $socket->print( 'password ' . encode('utf-8', $self->password) . "\n" );
        $line = $socket->getline;
        die $line if $line =~ s/^ACK //;
    }

    # save socket
    $self->_set_socket($socket);
}


#
# my @result = $mpd->_send_command( $command );
#
# This method is central to the module. It is responsible for interacting with
# mpd by sending the $command and reading output - that will be returned as an
# array of chomped lines (status line will not be returned).
#
# This method can die on several conditions:
#  - if the server cannot be reached,
#  - if it's not an mpd server,
#  - if the password is incorrect,
#  - or if the command is an invalid mpd command.
# In the latter case, the mpd error message will be returned.
#
sub _send_command {
    my ($self, $command) = @_;

    $self->_connect_to_mpd_server if $self->conntype eq 'once';
    my $socket = $self->_socket;

    # ok, now we're connected - let's issue the command.
    $socket->print( encode('utf-8', $command) );
    my @output;
    while (defined ( my $line = $socket->getline ) ) {
        chomp $line;
        die $line if $line =~ s/^ACK //; # oops - error.
        last if $line =~ /^OK/;          # end of output.
        push @output, decode('utf-8', $line);
    }

    # close the socket.
    $socket->close if $self->conntype eq 'once';

    return @output;
}


#
# my @items = $mpd->_cooked_command_as_items( $command );
#
# Lots of Audio::MPD methods are using _send_command() and then parse the
# output as a collection of AMC::Item. This method is meant to factorize
# this code, and will parse the raw output of _send_command() in a cooked
# list of items.
#
sub _cooked_command_as_items {
    my ($self, $command) = @_;

    my @lines = $self->_send_command($command);
    my (@items, %param);

    # parse lines in reverse order since "file:" or "directory:" lines
    # come first. therefore, let's first store every other parameter,
    # and the last line will trigger the object creation.
    # of course, since we want to preserve the playlist order, this means
    # that we're going to unshift the objects instead of push.
    foreach my $line (reverse @lines) {
        my ($k,$v) = split /:\s/, $line, 2;
        $param{$k} = $v;
        next unless $k eq 'file' || $k eq 'directory' || $k eq 'playlist'; # last param of item
        unshift @items, Audio::MPD::Common::Item->new(%param);
        %param = ();
    }

    return @items;
}


#
# my %hash = $mpd->_cooked_command_as_kv( $command );
#
# Lots of Audio::MPD methods are using _send_command() and then parse the
# output to get a list of key / value (with the colon ":" acting as separator).
# This method is meant to factorize this code, and will parse the raw output
# of _send_command() in a cooked hash.
#
sub _cooked_command_as_kv {
    my ($self, $command) = @_;
    my %hash =
        map { split(/:\s/, $_, 2) }
        $self->_send_command($command);
    return %hash;
}

#
# my @list = $mpd->_cooked_command_strip_first_field( $command );
#
# Lots of Audio::MPD methods are using _send_command() and then parse the
# output to remove the first field (with the colon ":" acting as separator).
# This method is meant to factorize this code, and will parse the raw output
# of _send_command() in a cooked list of strings.
#
sub _cooked_command_strip_first_field {
    my ($self, $command) = @_;

    my @list =
        map { ( split(/:\s+/, $_, 2) )[1] }
        $self->_send_command($command);
    return @list;
}


#--
# Public methods

# -- MPD interaction: general commands


sub ping {
    my ($self) = @_;
    $self->_send_command( "ping\n" );
}




# sub version {} # implemented as an accessor.




sub kill {
    my ($self) = @_;
    $self->_send_command("kill\n");
}




# implemented by password trigger (from moose)



sub updatedb {
    my ($self, $path) = @_;
    $path ||= '';
    $self->_send_command("update $path\n");
}



sub urlhandlers {
    my ($self) = @_;
    return $self->_cooked_command_strip_first_field("urlhandlers\n");
}


# -- MPD interaction: handling volume & output


sub volume {
    my ($self, $volume) = @_;

    if ($volume =~ /^(-|\+)(\d+)/ )  {
        my $current = $self->status->volume;
        $volume = $1 eq '+' ? $current + $2 : $current - $2;
    }
    $self->_send_command("setvol $volume\n");
}



sub outputs {
    my ($self) = @_;

    my @lines = $self->_send_command("outputs\n");
    my (@outputs, %param);

    # parse lines in reverse order since "id" lines come first
    foreach my $line (reverse @lines) {
        my ($k,$v) = split /:\s/, $line, 2;
        $k =~ s/^output//;
        $param{$k} = $v;
        next unless $k eq 'id'; # last output param
        unshift @outputs, Audio::MPD::Common::Output->new(%param);
        %param = ();
    }

    return @outputs;
}



sub output_enable {
    my ($self, $output) = @_;
    $self->_send_command("enableoutput $output\n");
}



sub output_disable {
    my ($self, $output) = @_;
    $self->_send_command("disableoutput $output\n");
}



# -- MPD interaction: retrieving info from current state


sub stats {
    my ($self) = @_;
    my %kv = $self->_cooked_command_as_kv( "stats\n" );
    return Audio::MPD::Common::Stats->new(\%kv);
}



sub status {
    my ($self) = @_;
    my %kv = $self->_cooked_command_as_kv( "status\n" );
    my $status = Audio::MPD::Common::Status->new( \%kv );
    return $status;
}



sub current {
    my ($self) = @_;
    my ($item) = $self->_cooked_command_as_items("currentsong\n");
    return $item;
}



sub song {
    my ($self, $song) = @_;
    return $self->current unless defined $song;
    my ($item) = $self->_cooked_command_as_items("playlistinfo $song\n");
    return $item;
}



sub songid {
    my ($self, $songid) = @_;
    return $self->current unless defined $songid;
    my ($item) = $self->_cooked_command_as_items("playlistid $songid\n");
    return $item;
}


# -- MPD interaction: altering settings



sub repeat {
    my ($self, $mode) = @_;

    $mode = not $self->status->repeat
        unless defined $mode; # toggle if no param
    $mode = $mode ? 1 : 0;               # force integer
    $self->_send_command("repeat $mode\n");
}



sub random {
    my ($self, $mode) = @_;

    $mode = not $self->status->random
        unless defined $mode; # toggle if no param
    $mode = $mode ? 1 : 0;               # force integer
    $self->_send_command("random $mode\n");
}



sub fade {
    my ($self, $value) = @_;
    $value ||= 0;
    $self->_send_command("crossfade $value\n");
}


# -- MPD interaction: controlling playback


sub play {
    my ($self, $number) = @_;
    $number = '' unless defined $number;
    $self->_send_command("play $number\n");
}



sub playid {
    my ($self, $number) = @_;
    $number ||= '';
    $self->_send_command("playid $number\n");
}



sub pause {
    my ($self, $state) = @_;
    $state ||= ''; # default is to toggle
    $self->_send_command("pause $state\n");
}



sub stop {
    my ($self) = @_;
    $self->_send_command("stop\n");
}



sub next {
    my ($self) = @_;
    $self->_send_command("next\n");
}



sub prev {
    my($self) = shift;
    $self->_send_command("previous\n");
}



sub seek {
    my ($self, $time, $song) = @_;
    $time ||= 0; $time = int $time;
    $song = $self->status->song if not defined $song; # seek in current song
    $self->_send_command( "seek $song $time\n" );
}



sub seekid {
    my ($self, $time, $song) = @_;
    $time ||= 0; $time = int $time;
    $song = $self->status->songid if not defined $song; # seek in current song
    $self->_send_command( "seekid $song $time\n" );
}


no Moose;
__PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
1;




__END__