Pause in Playlist

[weinc1]

The lack of an option to turn off autoplay in a playlist is driving me batty, Is there any code that be added? I know the "autoplay" option is it here but it does nothing for playlist. Thanks

[terrill]

@weinc1 the playlist feature was created with the assumption that a playlist, by definition, is a list of media that are intended to be played continuously in sequence, like a record album. Is your desire to pause between tracks from the standpoint of an author or user?

• For Authors: If the media is not intended to be played in sequence, I recommend not coding it as a playlist. Provide separate Able Player instances for each media title, or create an application that dynamically loads new media titles into a single Able Player instance as users click on titles.
• For Users: We could add a setting to the Preferences menu. We don't currently have any preferences for Playlists, so that would probably require its own submenu category "Playlists", and the option could be a checkbox with a label like "Automatically advance to next track in playlist" (checked by default since I do believe that's the expected behavior of playlists, but users can uncheck it).

[weinc1]

Thanks for the reply. A couple of quick answers.

1. As an author it is for Podcasts. Like a archive section. I did the individual/separate but as I am also providing transcripts it loaded each and every transcript window by default. That didn't so well.

2. For the user it would be best to NOT have everything auto play.

By way of example there is a "simple" playlist that default to a paused stated after each selection. It works great...except it is nowhere near as caption friendly as ableplayer. The code though seems to be easy...but I could find no where to place anything similar into ableplayer. The "xxx" would be the player name...say "able". And obviously I am only showing you the code related to the "autoplay"

"auto_load" is what it is...

controls.querySelector('.xxx-plause').disabled = xxx_auto_load ? true : false;

And later

if (xxx_auto_load || xxx_isPlaying) xxx_loadAudio(elem);

and starting is:

function xxx_startScript() {
xxx_auto_load = xxx_config.auto_load; //auto load audio file

And finely:
// Start player
if (document.querySelector('#xxx')) {
var xxx_auto_load, xxx_audio, xxx_album, xxx_cover, xxx_title, xxx_artist, xxx_controls, xxx_progress, xxx_volume, xxx_v_slider, xxx_v_num, xxx_others;
var xxx_isNext = false; //auto play

var xxx_config = ap_xxx.dataset.config ? JSON.parse(ap_xxx.dataset.config) : {
auto_load: false //auto load audio file
};

[terrill]

For Able Player, I could add support for a new attribute data-playlist-continuous which could be added to the playlist element. It will need to be "true" by default since continuous play has always been the default behavior so it shouldn't be changed unexpectedly without authors having control. Any author who wants their playlist to pause between tracks will just need to add data-playlist-continuous="false"

[weinc1]

That would be great,