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Windows => JRiver Media Center 33 for Windows => Topic started by: mattkhan on October 22, 2024, 03:03:31 am

Title: [REQ] Add each zone playing now as a node in the Browse tree
Post by: mattkhan on October 22, 2024, 03:03:31 am

currently you can add a special item "playlist" to the remote view which adds all known playlists to the browse tree, this makes it possible for any remote app to access playlists in the same way they do other parts of a library

the request is to add zones as another special item and use this to show the current playlist in each zone in the same way

the benefit is that every app that understands how to navigate, render and interact with the browse tree can now do the same with each zone (rather than having to create some custom view on playing now)

Title: Re: [REQ] Add each zone playing now as a node in the Browse tree
Post by: Matt on October 22, 2024, 02:05:08 pm

I'm hesitant to change:
http://localhost:52199/MCWS/v1/Browse/Children?Version=1&ErrorOnMissing=0

Because it's versioned and bumping the version causes customization to be discarded and the stock views to be loaded.

Is there some other way we could make this work? Thanks.

Title: Re: [REQ] Add each zone playing now as a node in the Browse tree
Post by: mattkhan on October 22, 2024, 02:31:25 pm

I didn't see a need to change the format, it's just a "special" node that you can add like playlists

e.g. querying the root would give you something like

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<Response Status="OK">
<Item Name="Audio">1</Item>
<Item Name="Video">3</Item>
<Item Name="Images">2</Item>
<Item Name="Playlists">4</Item>
<Item Name="Zones">5</Item>
</Response>

so then MCWS/v1/Browse/Children?ID=5 would produce something like

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<Response Status="OK">
<Item Name="Player">1001</Item>
<Item Name="Upstairs">1002</Item>
<Item Name="Kitchen">1003</Item>
</Response>

and then MCWS/v1/Browse/Children?ID=1001 would produce the usual response for when we hit a list of files, i.e.

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<Response Status="OK"/>

so then you'd use MCWS/v1/Browse/Files?ID=1001&Action=JSON instead and get a list of entries

Title: Re: [REQ] Add each zone playing now as a node in the Browse tree
Post by: Matt on October 22, 2024, 02:59:39 pm

Yeah, that would probably work. Let me look at it tomorrow. Thanks.

Title: Re: [REQ] Add each zone playing now as a node in the Browse tree
Post by: Matt on October 25, 2024, 11:46:47 am

Should be here:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,139923.0.html

Thanks for the help.