SoCo 0.19 release notes

SoCo 0.19 is the latest increment to the SoCo module. Among the additions this time are added methods for library share handling, new methods for relative and group volume handling and a new DIDL-Lite class used for certain podcasts. See the full list of additions and bugfixes below.

SoCo (Sonos Controller) is a Python package that allows you to programmatically control Sonos speakers.

New Features and Improvements

• Added class DidlRecentShow to the data_structures module to implement the added object.item.audioItem.musicTrack.recentShow DIDL-Lite object type. Used for podcasts etc. Pull request #677.

• Add support for Python 3.8, pull reques #679

• Add methods list_library_shares() and delete_library_share() to MusicLibrary. Partially addresses issue #678.

• Add a balance property to the SoCo class, allowing get/set of speaker balance, pull request #693. Addresses issue #692. Credit to @tephlon for the idea and the majority of the implementation.

• Add the set_relative_volume() method to the SoCo class, pull request #687

• Add unit test for soco.music_library.MusicLibrary.delete_library_share() method, pull request #694

• Add deprecation warning concerning the removal of Python 2.7 support, pull request #697

• Add group volume operations, pull request #688

Bugfixes

• Fixed broken link in loudness docstring, issue #671

• In soco.events, fixed bug affecting some users in code to determine system’s own IP address. Some systems requires a valid port to be used (not port 0), so we use config.EVENT_LISTENER_PORT. Pull request #680.

• Copy metadata from DidlItem to MusicServiceItem in get_queue() and events. Pull request #589. Closes issues #535, #547 and #552.

• Fixed a bug (avoid trying to iterate a None) in the discovery module, commit c8e4a24