Rating the current track with the CLI

[celynw]

I'd like to be able to rate songs programatically without switching to the app.

I have previously managed to do this in a cumbersome way by using a python script combining DBUS and the subsonic API (py-sonic)...

I just noticed supersonic has CLI commands already. I'm not 100% sure that adding to a growing list of CLI arguments is the most elegant solution, but I do think it would be great if we could do something like this:

supersonic -rate 5  # 5 stars
supersonic -rate 0  # Remove rating

(I can't see/remember if supersonic handles half-star ratings)

I'd like to have a go at creating a PR for this. Any thoughts?

[celynw]

Much like the -play-pause, -previous, -next options are also present in the system tray, it would also be amazing if we could rate the current song from there too. But I think this might be a bit more complex (one row per star option? Or something better?) and then I'd be tempted to go further and add more things, like album artwork and playback bar... So that should probably be a separate subject of 'tray menu enhancements'

[dweymouth]

I think it makes sense to add a CLI rating option. Maybe -rate-current or something like that for the naming to make it more unambiguous that it's for rating the currently playing track?

[zacaj]

just out of curiosity, what's your use case for this? Have never thought of it before but it seems interesting

[celynw]

Really I want to be able to rate tracks with a global hotkey, so I can progressively listen to all unrated tracks and rate them as I go without switching back to Supersonic for every track change (right now this is what I do).

I didn't think introducing 5+ hotkeys to Supersonic was a good solution, even if we had a good way to customise them. So having a CLI option means we can implement it ourselves, there are lots of ways that could be achieved

(Thanks for reminding me of this!)

[dweymouth]

Created PR #847