Queue/Playlist API

[Guichaguri]

This is not only a good idea for general design, but it also helps for better performance on Chromecast devices.

APIs that are going to change:

• setMetadata() will be removed. load() will be accepting metadata
• load() can be called multiple times. The songs will be added to the queue
• reset() will now reset the queue

APIs that are going to be added:

• skip() will skip to a song based on ID
• skipToNext() will skip to the next song
• skipToPrevious()will skip to the previous song
• Functions for removing/clearing the queue without resetting the player

It might be a good idea to rename load() to something else

[Guichaguri]

For this API, I'll need the state to become more reliable, I think I'll have to remove the callback from load and implement it as an event.
play, pause and other functions will work even though the track is not yet loaded, so if you load and then play, the track will play after it was loaded.

@jasongrishkoff Are you okay with this change?

[jasongrishkoff]

Sounds great -- I was already firing play() inside the callback; can just run the afterwards.

[jasongrishkoff]

Been keeping an eye on your commits. Let me know when I can help test this out.

[Guichaguri]

The playlist implementation is almost done, I'll let you know when it's ready for testing :)

[Guichaguri]

I think it's ready, I still haven't tested everything, but it should work.

[jasongrishkoff]

Great! Does the Wiki need updating?

[Guichaguri]

Yes, I'll update it tomorrow

[jasongrishkoff]

Thx! Going to today / this weekend.

[Guichaguri]

@jasongrishkoff I didn't have time to update the API page yet, but I have created a documentation page with every API function, constant or event. I'll try to work on the API page tomorrow.

Edit: It's updated now :)

[ashokkumar88]

@jasongrishkoff i can't find in the documentation or source code the load() function. Is this function renamed?

[jasongrishkoff]

@ashokkumar88 yeah this thread is nearly 1 year old, and the API has changed a lot since then!