Sending Player info to a window

[marceros]

Hello!

I'm dealing with catching changes in the 'Now playing' list as events so I can change my display accordingly.

The playbackState fires when one track ends and the next one starts playing. The nowPlayingModified fires when I add a new track to the player. My problem is that I cannot find which events will fire when I remove a track or I move a track within the player. Are there events for those situations?

Thank you in advance,
Marcelo

[drakinite]

Haven't tested to make sure, but both should fire with nowPlayingModified: https://www.mediamonkey.com/docs/api/fi ... ngModified

[marceros]

Haven't tested to make sure, but both should fire with nowPlayingModified: https://www.mediamonkey.com/docs/api/fi ... ngModified

Thank you for the prompt response. I think it doesn't work. I hope I'm wrong. I'll try again.

Meanwhile, I'm using SetTimeout to send a function that calls itself recursively and checks for changes in the player.

Thanks,
Marcelo

[Ludek]

Hi Marcelo,
thanks for reporting, it really fails to work for re-order and deletions.

To be fixed as https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=19266

Workaround is to listen 'change' event on app.player.getSongList()
https://www.mediamonkey.com/docs/api/cl ... etSongList

[marceros]

Thank you for the response!

Can you show me how the workaround line looks?

Maybe something like:

app.listen(app.player.getSongList(), 'change', eventFunction);

Thanks,
Marcelo

[drakinite]

Yep. Though it may be a better idea to store the list as a variable first.

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let thisSongList = app.player.getSongList();
app.listen(thisSongList, 'change', function (changeType) {
	// do stuff
});

(I haven't tested that code, but it should work)

[marceros]

Maybe I understand now. So I'm actually checking the change in a list, not an event as I'm used to. Is it right?

And in that case, I have to set a loop where the list variable gets the new list and the "change event" does the rest.

Am I seeing it right?

Thank you!

[drakinite]

And in that case, I have to set a loop where the list variable gets the new list and the "change event" does the rest.

No, no need for a loop. I was just giving a general coding suggestion. app.listen(app.player.getSongList(), ...) is still valid; but if you want to access thisSongList inside your event handler, you won't have to do app.player.getSongList() multiple times.

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app.listen(app.player.getSongList(), 'change', function (changeType) {
    if (changeType === undefined) {
        console.log('Song list has been rearranged');
    }
})

[marceros]

Thank you!

I think I need to do some homework.