Get exact playback position

[jakobbraun]

Hello,

First of all, thank you for creating and maintaining this amazing project!

I would like to get the exact playback position of a song. I’ve noticed the metadata field prgr, which provides the position that the player is currently reporting. However, it seems that the actual playback is delayed by the usual ~2 seconds of latency. To determine the real position, I would need to subtract this latency, but I haven’t found a way to retrieve its value.

My use case is to connect a visualization that relies on analysis of the track, such as beat positions.

Does anyone have an idea how to approach this? Is there something existing that I could use? Or does anyone have a suggestion on how to expose the real playback position as metadata?

Best regards,
Jakob