you removed the ~/.mycroft/skills/plex plugin/ folder as well? It might bite you because of old configuration files
I donât have that directoryâŚ
Yeah, sorry, not exactly that folder. Skill settings are saved within their own folder in ~/.mycroft/skills/
Check if there is a folder referencing to the plex plugin. It might contain a setting.json which is âoldâ.
I have it configured at home.mycroft.ai as in my mycroft.confâŚ
i am not sure which one got it working 
sorry
sorry, it appeared after a few minutes on home.mycroft.ai, but it doesnât create any directory under ~/.mycroft/skills, so I cannot configure it manually.
On the other hand it seems to conflict with News skill and youtube skill. Iâve removed both of them, but still fails with this error:
19:00:17.232 | INFO | 75232 | mesh-skill:send_MQTT:226 | address: 192.168.1.100, Port: 1883
19:00:17.649 | INFO | 75232 | Playback Control Skill | Resolving Player for: autumn tears
~~~~INFO | 75232 | mycroft.util:wait_while_speaking:58 | mycroft.utils.wait_while_speaking() is depreciated, use mycroft.audio.wait_while_speaking() instead.
19:00:17.652 | INFO | 75232 | mesh-skill:send_MQTT:224 | MQTT: Mycroft/RemoteDevices/c8600098ed99/response, "Just a second"
19:00:17.652 | INFO | 75232 | mesh-skill:send_MQTT:226 | address: 192.168.1.100, Port: 1883
19:00:17.654 | INFO | 75232 | mesh-skill:handle_speak:206 | Response Location Length: 0
Plex Music skill
Title 0.000000
Artist 0
Album 0
Playlist 0
by Search 0It seems it did not create any music lists âŚ
could you please try reloading by âreload libraryâ and send me the log?
it should spam the logs with all the songs its loading one after the other ⌠when itâs done it will say âwe are ready to rollâ or something similar.
it should create a folder ~/.config/plexSkill and a json in it, containing info on your music.
could you check if that is happening?
thatâs the information itâs going to use to respond to your queries.
Well, got finally working!
Something happened after installing this skill, donât know if it was a coincidence but my mycroft instance stopped working completely, it didnât respond to anything, weird.
All I had to do was:
git config pull.rebase false
git pull
./dev_setup.sh
and start mycroft again. Then, the library was scanned automatically
Now listening my beloved music. I will test the new features and report back! 
First impressions.
- Search works impressively well. As I am not an English speaker, I expected to have issues it understood the 100% of the searches I did, even mycroft itself didnât understand me well. For instance when I say âplay the garden of dreams from autumn tearsâ, Mycroft understands
play the garden of dreams from out to theaters
The skill says:
Plex Music skill
Title The Garden Of Crystalline Dreams - Act One 63.000000
Artist Lethian Dreams (FRA) 50
Album The Gardens Of Soulles (Split Ankhagram & Renascentia) 53
Playlist 0
by Search The Garden Of Crystalline Dreams - Act One by Autumn Tears 63
And plays the proper album: The Garden Of Crystalline Dreams - Act One
Which is impressive, because I forgot to mention âcrystallineâ in the title and mycroft understood âout of theatersâ instead âautumn tearsâ (yes, my pronunciation sucks).
I guess all those âTitleâ, âArtistâ, âAlbumâ, and so means all the matches and the probability.
- Saying ânext songâ works!
The not-so-good
- When I say to play a single song, it plays one time after another. I did the test and it plays the same song three times. I think it should play just once if I donât say to play it endlessly or N times.
- When I say to play an album, it plays the album randomly, I think people like me with some years in his back, used to CDs or vinyls, are more used to listen the album songs in order.
- When I say âplay random musicâ, it plays the News, not music. It works as expected when I say âplay some random musicâ, though.
Ideas and nice-to-have
As my coding skills are too poor to contribute by coding, I can contribute with a few ideas that can make this skill even more awesome.
- When I say âprevious songâ does nothing, it would be nice to tell mycroft âplay previous song againâ
- It would be nice to obtain some info of the current song. On Mark II/Desktop Mycroft instances they will show this information on the screen, even on the Mark I the info could be displayed on its LED screen. But telling something like âwhat song is playingâ and let mycroft speak the title and album, or âwhat is this artistâ/âwho is playing this songâ would be awesome for people like me who has hundreds of albums and many of them listened a handful of times to recognize even the artist.
- Support for multiple libraries and shared libraries. As a hardcore plex user, I have a premium account and have multiple users in my home, so my stuff doesnât mess with my wifeâs one, but I would like her to listen her music as well. The way I do this is by creating several libraries with my admin account, one for me and one for her, and sharing her library to her account. I have also several libraries from other plex accounts, shared with me. Currently I can just listen my own library, so she cannot listen her music nor I can hear my friendâs libraries.
- Play best rated artist/albums. In plex, you can rate from 1 to 5 stars the song, the album or the artist. It would be great to say âplay the best rated songsâ, âplay best rated albumsâ or âplay best rated artistsâ so you can listen what you like most.
- Rate current song, album or artist from 1 to 5 stars
- Play by mood. In plex, you can set the âmoodâ of a track, album or artist. So you can listen music by tags.
- Add tag to current track, album or artist with "set mood to this song|album|artist to
<tag>"
In general, Iâm quite impressed how well and fast this skill works. I HATE cloud services where I cannot find almost any artist I listen (the genres I listen are very underground) and I have to buy all the discs by myself, so I refuse to pay for a streaming service which can offer a poor selection of artists and I also hate not owning my own content.
Very, very good job. Iâm going to use this skill as everyday skill.
Thank you very much!
I went to dinner and see a tv show for a while, and when Iâve return, it seems it doesnât work now, Iâve refreshed the library and thatâs the output
done loading library
01:11:06.854 | INFO | 147787 | mesh-skill:send_MQTT:224 | MQTT: Mycroft/RemoteDevices/c8600098ed99/response, "we are ready to go"
01:11:06.854 | INFO | 147787 | mesh-skill:send_MQTT:226 | address: 192.168.1.100, Port: 1883
01:11:06.856 | INFO | 147787 | mesh-skill:handle_speak:206 | Response Location Length: 0
01:11:12.253 | INFO | 147787 | mesh-skill:send_MQTT:224 | MQTT: Mycroft/RemoteDevices/c8600098ed99/request, "play clouds"
01:11:12.254 | INFO | 147787 | mesh-skill:send_MQTT:226 | address: 192.168.1.100, Port: 1883
01:11:12.869 | INFO | 147787 | Playback Control Skill | Resolving Player for: clouds
01:11:12.870 | INFO | 147787 | mycroft.util:wait_while_speaking:58 | mycroft.utils.wait_while_speaking() is depreciated, use mycroft.audio.wait_while_speaking() instead.
01:11:12.871 | INFO | 147787 | mesh-skill:send_MQTT:224 | MQTT: Mycroft/RemoteDevices/c8600098ed99/response, "Give me a moment to check for that"
01:11:12.872 | INFO | 147787 | mesh-skill:send_MQTT:226 | address: 192.168.1.100, Port: 1883
01:11:12.874 | INFO | 147787 | mesh-skill:handle_speak:206 | Response Location Length: 0
Removing event mycroft-playback-control.mycroftai:PlayQueryTimeout
Plex Music skill
Title Closer 67.000000
Artist Clouds 100
Album Melancholy clouds 52
Playlist Gothic playlist 29
by Search Dor by Clouds 63
Removing event mycroft-playback-control.mycroftai:PlayQueryTimeout
Removing event mycroft-playback-control.mycroftai:PlayQueryTimeout
01:11:19.215 | INFO | 147787 | Playback Control Skill | Playing with: plexmusic-skill.colla69
01:11:19.263 | INFO | 147787 | Mark2 | Cancelling Idle screen
Removing event mycroft-mark-2.mycroftai:IdleCheck
01:11:19.484 | INFO | 147787 | mycroft.audio.services.vlc:stop:79 | VLCService Stop
01:11:19.684 | INFO | 147787 | Playback Control Skill | Audio service status: {}
01:11:21.491 | INFO | 147787 | mesh-skill:send_MQTT:224 | MQTT: Mycroft/RemoteDevices/c8600098ed99/response, "a playback error occurred"
01:11:21.493 | INFO | 147787 | mesh-skill:send_MQTT:226 | address: 192.168.1.100, Port: 1883
01:11:21.493 | INFO | 147787 | mesh-skill:send_MQTT:224 | MQTT: Mycroft/RemoteDevices/c8600098ed99/response, "sorry"
01:11:21.495 | INFO | 147787 | mesh-skill:send_MQTT:226 | address: 192.168.1.100, Port: 1883
01:11:21.499 | INFO | 147787 | mesh-skill:handle_speak:206 | Response Location Length: 0
01:11:21.499 | INFO | 147787 | mesh-skill:handle_speak:206 | Response Location Length: 0
as you can see it says a playback error occurred, sorry
EDITED: by restarting mycroft services the skill went back to life. Letâs see if that happens again
That kind of error âplayback errorâ comes directly out of the VLC Backend.
sadly I have no idea when and why⌠anyways it normally works on a second callâŚ
if it is in fact reproducible on a single title, then it means thereâs some problem with the saved linkâŚ
moving music in PMS without âreload libraryâ could also bring your links out of sync.
i am still thinking how to get a fast cache working ⌠but i donât see that happening anytime soon
Hey @malevolent,
I really appreciate you taking the time to write your impresssions.
That really helps a lot.
To explain the function of the skill further, i need to tell you that it always gets a
âlist of contentâ to play back.
I gave it some thought and, at the time I came up with the following answers/questions:
(thinking about the usability of a feature-complete all-around music-player only using voice commands was not as easy as I would have expected, especially without a visual support)
-
The single song playing more than one Title is a âfeatureâ as you can ask for a title
and get more than a single result (covers, live & concert versions⌠) -
The Randmization of the album is also intended by I understand how you feel.
I never had anybody else using the skill so it simply randomizes any search result.
Would you prefer to have a âshuffle modeâ that you put on an off,
or would you rather say âhey mycroft, play randomized AlbumNameâ or something else⌠I personally couldnât decide how i want to use it and postponed developement. -
about the âprevious songâ not working right, no idea ⌠need to look into that ^^
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you can ask what song is playing by saying one of the following
music info |
music information |
what are you playing |
what is this |
what is this song -
i started working the screen features ⌠i stopped as i couldnât programmatically decide where to play my music ⌠since the GUI as i remember it ⌠almost a year ago had itâs own player built in âŚ
and i had to use the vlc backend from the skill OR the GUI player⌠and there was no way to ask the framework if a GUI is active ⌠I should simply give it another try when i have time⌠using the screen as a support to voice is a lot of help
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multiple libraries is something i never thought of as i am the only âfriend with data to shareâ ^^ i think itâs a good idea⌠with a followup question⌠i would simply configure multiple comma separated names ⌠and load more than one library⌠the question at this point is ⌠do you activate a library ? (hey myc,Activate music library LibraryName) or just mix it all together in one searchable library âŚ? I think âhey myc, play song by Artist from LibraryNameâ starts to get ridicolously long for a spoken queryâŚ
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i had no idea we have moods in plex ⌠I honestly implemented the âadd to playlistâ with that specific intention⌠i have playlists like âenergyâ or ârelaxingâ ⌠i will definitely look into that as i am highly interested in using the feature
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i personally donât use ratings ⌠but the whole backend to it is already there ⌠so it would simply need the implementation through voiceâŚ
And I totally feel your pain about music and contents⌠let me know if you want some of the changes prioritized âŚ
it will take some time but i am happy to help
and thanks again, you giving me feedback mmotivated me quite a lot 
Hi there @colla69!
You donât need to thank anything, Iâm the one who is grateful and enjoying your skill 
, I hope more users would feedback you about your skill, I even thought to announce it on plex forums, as many of their users are linux users and I would bet they would be as excited as I am. Besides, perhaps it would bring even more users to this community 
I expect from a voice-only music player has its limitations, but after testing other music skills, I must admit, this is from far what works the best. So keep doing the good job!! And regarding the GUI, Iâve just realized that your skill already has one!!
Yes, I know. I can search for an Album, Live concert and others and it will play the entire record, is just when I specifically ask for a single song when this behavior happened. Iâll do more tests and report back.
IMO, I think when a user ask for an album, it should play the album in sequential order, unless he or she says âshuffle this albumâ when playing or "play randomized|shuffled AlbumName"when invoking the skill.
It should be fine, though, to listen random songs when you ask for an Artist, as you didnât ask for an explicit album name. I guess playing entire discography sequentially, in chronological order could be fine and a cool feature for some users, and thus you could ask for âplay next albumâ. I like the idea, but I admit it would add more complexity.
Nice! Sometimes I like so much a song I would like to hear it more than once in a row!
I just tested this, and Mycroft didnât speak anything, so I fired up the plasma widget and⌠tadaaa, the info was just there! I need to extensively test it, because I ask for the weather and asked back for the info, and it seemed to me that âmusic infoâ didnât work, but âwhat are you playingâ did. As I say, Iâll do more tests.
Multiple libraries could be activated on the configuration delimited with commas as you suggested. Bearing in mind Library names can have blank spaces in the name. I can share my music libraries (I donât think my tvshows or movies, most of them only in spanish, will be of interest for you) with you if you need to do some tests with shared libraries. Regarding invoking one or other library⌠I would do like plex does: you donât need to specify any library name, it searches in all libraries, local and remote, son I guess API will do the same. If there is a match in multiple libraries, local and remote, play local first.
I donât use mood either, but surely there are people out there tagging all their music. I find tagging more flexible than creating lists.
I rate exclusively the songs I really like the most, but I certainly use rating a lot more if I could do it via voice, as usually I listen my music when working, and stopping what Iâm doing, going to the browser, search the tab where plex is living, and clicking on the rating star will slow down my productivity. Telling mycroft to set X stars to the current song will help me to have my library more tidy. And that also applies to the tagging feature.
So, glad to hear you are motivated to work in this skill and add more cool features!!
Iâve just realized of another cool feature: âplay on X deviceâ.
Plex can reach chromecast and another plex clients on the network, so I can âsendâ it to wherever I want. (That can be useful as well for a future "PlexTV-Skill )
@malevolent, have you found any documentation on the chromecast integration with Mycroft? I am interested in extending my kodi skill to include an option for chromecast but aside from the splattering of references in the forum I have not seen any formal documentation on chromecast support. Maybe @gez-mycroft can assist with this?
Chromecastâs support is very tricky, as G has even removed support from Chromium since a year or so, plex found a workaround to send media to Chromecast https://support.plex.tv/articles/201206866-cast-from-browser-or-desktop/ but is not plex-native (years ago, when chromecast was more open, you just had to click on the stream button inside the plex app, but now it seems the entire casting solution to Chromecast must be done via Cast menu on Chrome Browser)
There was another kodi app, if I recall correctly, Prime Video, Disney+ or Netflix addon for kodi, one of those, had to install some kind of Chrome browser bundle or SDK (a huge set of files of 2GB or so) in order to work. Is just a guess, but perhaps with this, you can make kodi to behave like a Chrome browser with Chromecast supportâŚ
Well, this skill stopped working, my bet is that is not compatible with Common Play
Hi Colla69 aka Andrea
Iâm quite new to Mycrof and discovered your skill. It appears youâve done some great work on this Skill. I notice itâs not in the MarketPlace. Is the project still active/working. Are you maintaining the code? Iâd like to give it a Spin.
Cheers
TLDR; @danboysk
Have fun with it, and let me know how it goes
Hey @danboysk
please feel free to use my code as you wish. I will accept MRs an review them.
Or if you decide to make your own, i would appreciate a link to see what was born out of it.
The skill is not in the marketplace because of the underwhelming quality of my own work. Adding the fact that I also never came around to write tests for it.
So i am not maintaining the code at the moment, as i couldnât find time to implement and test the features i wanted and the mycroft framework was still missing some features i would have needed to get my concept working.
I also was planning to work with python to better my skills,
but could only find java jobs, so i had to move my focus away for python 
Have a great day
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