albumsbylength -- print out all albums in MPD library prefixed with their total length

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import mpd

HOST = "localhost"
PORT = 6600
PASS = None

client = mpd.MPDClient()
client.connect(HOST, PORT)
if PASS:
	client.password(PASS)
client.iterate = True

albums = {}
for song in client.listallinfo():
	try:
		album = song["album"]
	except KeyError:
		continue

	try:
		artist = song["albumartist"]
	except KeyError:
		try:
			artist = song["artist"]
		except KeyError:
			artist = "(unknown)"

	try:
		album = "%s -- %s (%s)" % (artist, album, song["date"][0:4])
	except KeyError:
		pass

	if not album in albums:
		albums[album] = 0
	albums[album] += int(song["time"])

client.close()
client.disconnect()

for album, length in albums.iteritems():
	print "%d:%02d\t%s" % (length / 60, length % 60, album)