Clementine: [Question] Is it possible write plugins/extensions/scripts for clementine?

[LoveIsGrief]

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System information

• Operating System: Kubuntu 16.04
• Clementine version: 1.2.3

Question

Is it possible write plugins/extensions/scripts for clementine?

I haven't found documentation to do so nor any issues answering this question. IIRC Clementine was forked from Amarok, which does have a plugin system.

It would be really great to be able to so, since C++ is not my language of choice.

[hatstand]

No.

[LoveIsGrief]

Is it planned at all?

[ccoenen]

I was wondering the same thing. I'm in the process of switching over from Media Monkey. There, I use a tiny script that is called every time a new track starts. This is very versatile and I depend a little bit on this.

[Venryx]

Same for me, would be quite nice.

My use case is the following:
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So let's say you're like me and you have a large collection of music. However, you also recently added a new batch of music that you really like. You want to hear that new batch of music a lot, but you also don't want to hear that new music exclusively, otherwise it will cause the enjoyment factor to decay too fast.

So you want your full collection in the playlist, but have the playlist "biased" to where it over-represents the new music by a certain amount in the mix. In other words, a way to "weight" new music with an arbitrary "frequency multiplier".
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I like Clementine Player a lot, but lacking a script/extension system is a serious lack in my opinion. That said, I understand it's a pretty large feature to add, so it seems unlikely that it will be added anytime soon. (I'd look into it myself if it were in a language I had experience with, but I've only touched C++ code a few times in my life ^_^)

In the mean-time, I'm looking into some other open-source players with scripting languages, like Amarok.

If the other players don't pan out (for example, if they lack Clementine's auto-playlists and/or replay-gain auto-equalization), I'll look into creating a script that interacts with the network api as provided here:
https://github.com/jjmontesl/python-clementine-remote
https://github.com/clementine-player/Android-Remote/blob/master/app/src/main/java/de/qspool/clementineremote/backend/pb/remotecontrolmessages.proto

[LoveIsGrief]

I can recommend Quod Libet. They have pretty good plugin support and a nice list thereof.