Bugzilla – Bug 564
Add ability to play brief messages without disrupting playlist
Last modified: 2011-11-06 23:24:03 UTC
There are several applications for which it would be great to be able to play a brief message on a Squeezebox without disrupting the existing playlist. Specifically, there should be a way to pause the currently playing song, push a short playlist, play the track(s), pop back to the old playlist, and resume playback where we left off.
Felix has an annoucement script that does this, and a similar method is used in the email plugin. The only problem right now is bug5 which prevents short clips from playing becuase they dont fill the buffer and play before the buffer is reset and goes back to main stream
Moving bugs not slated for 6.1 to future release. Please modify if this is incorrect or if this issue has already been addressed.
in updating my email plugin, I know this is possible to announce, but it interrupts the playback of the song in progress. the song starts again from the beginning. while it would be possible to trap the song progress and resume from that point, this would ONLY work on native formats. possibly very messy to take care of transcoded formats, streams, and direct-streams. maybe handle it like the bookmark plugin, where it tries to jump to the right time, and simply starts at 0 if that fails. not sure how the buffering time might play in. if these are non-db files, special care must be taken when to fit the announcement into place as it is a new track.
This could be part of the playlist refactoring.
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