Using Intents/Tasker to play a specific artist

[Moonrakerone]

Hello! I have sort of an ambitious project, and I'm a bit stumped.

 

I have a tasker variable, %ARTIST, set that just constantly updates the currently playing artist. I would like to be able to have a task which simply plays all of that artist's music on my phone.

 

I've hit a wall at sending the command to tasker. Using the following: 

 

Action : android.media.action.MEDIA_PLAY_FROM_SEARCH

Extra : query: %ARTIST

Package : com.maxmpz.audioplayer

Target : Activity

 

With tasker's Send Intent task, Poweramp will play the first song of the artist in alphabetical order, then play the rest of my library in alphabetical order. 

 

How can I tell Poweramp to play a specific(Varying) artist from tasker?

 

(Posted here instead of general talk)

[flyingdutchman]

I think your question is closely related to mine

http://forum.powerampapp.com/index.php?/topic/6381-how-to-launch-Poweramp-from-another-andoid-app-into-playing-an-m3u-playlist/

Having looked at other music app intents, only google music works. I dont think Poweramp has the necessary intent handling.

[steviehs]

I am trying the same, but from my understanding the call should be:

 

Action: com.maxmpz.audioplayer.API_COMMAND
Data: content://com.maxmpz.audioplayer/artists&flt=%ARTIST
Extra: cmd:20
Target: Service 

 

Unfortunately, this does also not work for me.

I tested it with e.g.

 

Data: content://com.maxmpz.audioplayer/artists&flt=foo

 

Which started playing some songs (still not related at all to foo in the artists name)...

 

At this point I am stuck... any hints?

[F43nd1r]

I know this is kinda old, but I just wanted to tell you what I've found out.

First: you can query playing artist foo with content://com.maxmpz.audioplayer.data/files?flt=foo

It's even working for not exact input (e.g. "mind in a box" matches "mind.in.a.box")

Second: this may fail if there are songs containing the artist name in title, because all results are played.

So: it would also work for title or album queries

Third: by looking into Playerservice.xml I found out, that content://com.maxmpz.audioplayer.data/artists/#/files

would also work, but # seems to be an unique artist id, which I don't know how to find out.

Greetings from Germany,

F43nd1r

[VIglio]

Hi,

take a look on this written by me

 

[flyingdutchman]

Viglio,

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