Content Selection And Playback; Overview - Roku M1000 Software Manual

Content Selection And Playback

Overview

The following commands allow you to list, organize, and play music stored on a
server. For these commands to succeed, the RCP session must have a valid,
connected active server. See the preceding section for details.
• ListSongs
• ListAlbums
• ListArtists
• ListComposers
• ListGenres
• ListLocations
• ListMediaLanguages
• ListPlaylists
• ListPlaylistSongs
• ListContainerContents
• GetCurrentContainerPath
• ContainerEnter
• ContainerExit
• SearchSongs
• SearchArtists
• SearchAlbums
• SearchComposers
• SearchAll
• SetBrowseFilterAlbum
• SetBrowseFilterArtist
• SetBrowseFilterComposer
• SetBrowseFilterGenre
• SetBrowseFilterLocation
• SetBrowseFilterMediaLanguage
Browsing
Music library browsing is supported with the ListXXXX commands and the
SetBrowseFilterXXXX commands. Browsing means that you can search the
library by categories, namely: artist, album, composer, and genre. Not all music
libraries support browsing, so be prepared for a failure result. In particular, some
UPnP servers don't support browsing, but require you to browse containers
instead.
Each RCP session has a "browse filter" object that you can set up with
parameters to modify the lists returned by the next call to a ListXXXX command.
For example, to list the albums by the artist Led Zeppelin, you could issue the
following commands:
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