next/prev keys for quick station change in playlist mode

Hi @coderholic @s-n-g ,

thanks for this great app. It would be nice if there were two keyboard shortcuts for playing next/previous station in a playlist.

It would be great if mvp or another player could use these shortcuts. I mean I have next/prev pause/play physical keys on my keyboard which works in many apps which are playing in the background e.g. Spotify.

I also noticed that the pause/play key on my keyboard already works (only) with mvp player.

If you agree and can give me some info. I can create a PR.

[s-n-g]

Oh, I see what you mean!

I do not think this can be done with pyradio at this time, though… You see, it just reads keyboard input from the terminal, which means that the terminal has to be focused to do that

Now, there is a way to do it: a keyboard listener Try this out:

from pynput import keyboard

def on_press(key):
    try:
        print('alphanumeric key {0} pressed'.format(
            key.char))
    except AttributeError:
        print('special key {0} pressed'.format(
            key))

def on_release(key):
    print('{0} released'.format(
        key))
    if key == keyboard.Key.esc:
        # Stop listener
        return False

# Collect events until released
with keyboard.Listener(
        on_press=on_press,
        on_release=on_release) as listener:
    listener.join()

You will have to install the following python module beforehand: pynput

Save the program as keyb_listener.py and execute

python keyb_listener.py

Focus any other window and start typing. You should be able to see the keys you type. You should also be able to see your “extra” keys (next / previous / play / ‘pause’, etc)

Please do tell me how that goes!

Finally, I may be able to incorporete this functionality to pyradio (not sure how, thought), but in any case this is something for the future.

I will leave this issue open, so that I do not forget about it 😃

[jirikrepl]

Hi @s-n-g

sorry for my late answer. I tested your code and ^N and ^P works great! But what I meant was if pyradio could do prev next even when terminal is out of focus.

On my keyboard when using media keys I can do prev/next, play/pause Spotify, even if Spotify does not have focus

Currently I can do play/pause when using pyradio with mplayer and terminal does not focus. prev next does not work

Here is my keyboard layout where there are those media keys https://configure.zsa.io/ergodox-ez/layouts/gYqMN/latest/1

Here are some screenshots with keycodes

I tested your script but it will not print anything if I press media keys. It works only fine with single letter keys

I used karabiner event view to print keycodes for those media keys (there are keydown and keyup events):

• play_or_pause
• scan_previous_track
• scan_next_track