React-native-track-player: 1.2.0

[export-mike]

maybe worth making this change a breaking change? bump to 2.0.0? just had this install with a ^ selector in package.json on a < 0.60.0 project.

[dcvz]

@Guichaguri I would agree with this. Let's make v2 bring in Android X support.

[Guichaguri]

Alright! Should we also use it to implement a few API changes?

Here's a list of changes I can think of:

Split Metadata Functionality

Already being discussed in #634

Improve Queue Functionality

In some cases, the queue is a pain to work with, this should improve it a lot. This has been one of the most requested features.

• Make the track id optional. Instead, we'll replace it for the track index.
• load(track) - Loads a track directly without using the queue, so we can stop being opinionated about it too.
• shuffle() - Shuffles the queue
• move(index, toIndex) - Moves a track from a position to another
• setRepeatMode(mode) - Updates the repeat mode
  
  
  
  • REPEAT_NONE: Doesn't repeat
  
  
  • REPEAT_TRACK: Repeats the current track only
  
  
  • REPEAT_QUEUE: Repeats the whole queue
  
  

Redesign the Rating API

We should rethink it to cover both iOS and Android use-cases.

• Add a bookmark button
• Add thumbs up / thumbs down buttons
• Add a heart (or only thumbs up) button
• Add star-based rating?
• Add percentage-based rating?
• Allow changing the buttons label (i18n)

Miscellaneous changes

• Change duration/position values to milliseconds instead of seconds. It should definitely help integrating the module as all other music players are also based on milliseconds.
• Move DASH/HLS/SmoothStreaming integration into three "addon" modules that can be maintained separately.

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@dcvz What do you think?

Edit: RN 0.60 has been released today

[dcvz]

I like a lot of these suggestions @Guichaguri -- let's start a new issue and discuss the roadmap to 2.0.0 there :)

[ithustle]

@Guichaguri, cache on iOS too :)

[jasongrishkoff]

Chromecast please!

[ithustle]

Prevent event statusQueueEnded fired on startup or even on add a track to play on Android, should be good

[dcvz]

Please let's continue conversations on the v2 issue.