Using Intents/Tasker to play a specfic 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?

[andrewilley]

As far as I know, the media play intent is only designed to play a single song, not create a temporary playlist. Probably best to ask in the dev forum though, see topics such as http://forum.powerampapp.com/index.php?/topic/6147-tasker-intents/.

Andre