Reordering Upcoming songs & queue

[friiskoch]

Would be nice to be able to reorder upcoming/queue with drag-and-drop just like with playlists. I'd wish for the same behavior Spotify has. Like being albe to drag songs from the queue to upcoming and the other way around. And deleting songs from the queue by swiping left (you've already implemented that for playlists too).

[cyanChill]

This is a good idea, though for this to happen, I first need to redesign how we load tracks for playing. Right now, we load up to 2 tracks into the Android API that handles playback due to making it easier to manage and control what gets played next such as the scenarios where we:

• Want to repeat the current song over and over ("Repeat One" feature).
• Want to play a track added to the queue via the "Add to Queue" button.
• Need to change the next track played due to adding/removing a track from the playlist being played.
• Need to change the next track played due to removing the next track added via the "Add to Queue" button.

You might be thinking that based on the method we have currently, we could theoretically implement this, which yea, we could. But I do plan on trying to get playback to work to a certain extend when we remove the app from the "Recents screen", meaning we need to load a lot more than 2 tracks. I rather do everything at once than implement something, rip it out, then re-implement it.

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The drag & drop feature will probably require us to move the list of upcoming tracks to a different screen instead of the "sheet" that pops up from the bottom of the screen since the last time I tried to have drag & drop in the sheet, it was a bit glitchy since the gesture for closing the sheet & dragging the items were messing with each other.

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There's a difference between the "Upcoming Songs" & "Queue" in the "Upcoming Sheet", which the tracks that are part of the queue have a [Q] before the start of the track name. Those tracks can be swiped left to show the remove button.

[Costeer]

to add to this gramophone already has this feature implemented idk how much this is going to apply since its implemented in a different language but it might be helpful to look at as a reference implementation for reordering and keeping tracks loaded in the background.

in any case keep up the great work on this music player :D

[cyanChill]

v2.7.0-rc.1 revamps how the queue works. There's no more temporary queue - when playing from a list, we play from a copy of that list which we can then add tracks (permanently to the copy w/ "Add to Queue"), remove tracks, and reorder tracks.

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As a side note, apparently we could support continued playback when the app gets removed from the "Recents screen" (something learned in v2.4.0/v2.5.0) since the foreground service would still exist, meaning the code that handles loading the next song and such would still work.