bash - skip to next track on Squeezebox player via SlimServer/LogitechMediaServer

next.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# skip to next track on Squeezebox player via SlimServer/LogitechMediaServer

SQUEEZEBOX_SERVER='localhost:9000'  # server host:port
SQUEEZEBOX_PLAYER='00:05:11:23:82:6e' # player MAC address


next () {
    curl -sS -o /dev/null -X POST \
        -d '{"id":1,"method":"slim.request","params":["'${SQUEEZEBOX_PLAYER}'",["button","jump_fwd"]]}' \
        "http://${SQUEEZEBOX_SERVER}/jsonrpc.js"
}