<SYSTEM_TASK:>
Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
<END_TASK>
<USER_TASK:>
Description:
 async def connect(self, timeout=None):
 """ Connects to the Lavalink player event websocket. Parameters timeout : int Time after which to timeout on attempting to connect to the Lavalink websocket, ``None`` is considered never, but the underlying code may stop trying past a certain point. Raises ------ asyncio.TimeoutError If the websocket failed to connect after the given time. """

        self._is_shutdown = False

        combo_uri = "ws://{}:{}".format(self.host, self.rest)
        uri = "ws://{}:{}".format(self.host, self.port)

        log.debug(
            "Lavalink WS connecting to %s or %s with headers %s", combo_uri, uri, self.headers
        )

        tasks = tuple({self._multi_try_connect(u) for u in (combo_uri, uri)})

        for task in asyncio.as_completed(tasks, timeout=timeout):
            with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
                if await cast(Awaitable[Optional[websockets.WebSocketClientProtocol]], task):
                    break
        else:
            raise asyncio.TimeoutError

        log.debug("Creating Lavalink WS listener.")
        self._listener_task = self.loop.create_task(self.listener())

        for data in self._queue:
            await self.send(data)

        self.ready.set()
        self.update_state(NodeState.READY)