When a gapless advance was announced, the new track's tracker sent its
initial report from live player state, which still carried the finished
track's position and duration - telling Plex the new track was already
at ~100%. PMS recorded a play (and a Last.fm scrobble) at track start on
top of the one from the real playthrough, and the tracker latched the
new track watched locally the moment it began.
The music bind now pins the initial report to the track's own start
(position zero, metadata duration); timer ticks keep reading live state.
close#1849
A coalesced key-repeat skip pins its target so a slow backend cannot make
the next press rebase off a position the seek has not reached yet. Nothing
retired that pin when something else moved the playhead, so for the ten
seconds it survived, a skip taken after a timeline tap, a chapter jump, an
OS media control or a peer sync resumed from the superseded target and threw
the user back across their own jump.
Publish every playhead movement on the player and retire the pin whenever
the announced destination is not the accumulator's own commit. Overlapping
seeks and backend-chosen relocations arbitrate by which operation the
backend accepted, so a request that was merely asked for cannot speak for
where the playhead ended up.
close#1819
Starting a music playlist, album, or artist on shuffle always opened on
the list's first track: MusicQueueController.load anchored _order[cursor]
and shuffled only the rest, and _startQueue collapsed "no start track"
into startIndex 0, so the anchor was always the head.
Anchoring is right for the two callers that do have a track which must
play first -- the now-playing shuffle toggle, and a load with an explicit
start track -- so make "no explicit start" representable instead of
inferring it from the index: load takes int? startIndex and shuffles the
whole list, head included, when it is null. A start track the list turns
out not to contain now drops the anchor rather than falling back to 0.
Video playback was never affected: Plex shuffles server-side via
/playQueues and Jellyfin already shuffles its full local list.
The queue's Random is injectable so the service-level regression is
deterministic without depending on the SDK's seeded-PRNG sequence.
Close#1811
Music ran under a foreground service whose lifecycle observer was registered for
App TV, so backgrounding the app on a head unit never paused it and driving never
stopped it. Both halves were wrong for a car: parked audio must survive the app
going to the background, and DD-2 requires it to stop when the vehicle starts
moving.
The vehicle now owns exactly the pause it caused. It is claimed when a restriction
arrives and discharged on the event that proves the resume, so a track the user
paused during a drive stays paused when the car parks. A restriction landing while
the next source is still resolving silences the native player as well as the
session, because the previous track is still coming out of it, and a pause that
throws ends the session rather than leaving audio running in a moving car.
Plezy declares appCategory="video", so on Android Automotive OS it is a
parked app bound by car app quality DD-2/DD-3: audio must stop when the
vehicle starts driving and must not be resumable while driving. Two paths
kept audio alive. Music playback ran under a mediaPlayback foreground
service whose lifecycle observer was registered for Apple TV only, so it
never paused when Android backgrounded the app. Video pausing hung off
AppLifecycleState.hidden, which Flutter only synthesizes once Android
delivers onStop; a car without the Automotive compatibility mode delivers
onPause alone, which maps to AppLifecycleState.inactive and the player
ignored.
Gate every path that can start audio on a new lifecycle predicate,
automotivePlaybackAllowed, which permits playback on a car only while the
app is resumed and fails closed on an unknown lifecycle state. That covers
explicit play, gapless arming and track transitions, live retry and
channel switch, frame-rate-match resume, VOD/live startup, and the queue
navigation commands of the OS media session, plus a last-resort pause for
when the platform player resumes itself on native audio-focus regain.
Playback authority on the media-session router is deliberately left alone:
the router consumes a denied event, so gating it would swallow PauseEvent
and leave the OS unable to stop audio. Reacting to lifecycle callbacks is
the mechanism the platform documents as sufficient, so no android.car
dependency is added.
The music queue no longer requests POST_NOTIFICATIONS on a car, where the
foreground service and its notification never start: there is nothing to
authorize, and the prompt would take focus and make the gate discard the
first play intent.
Detect the form factor too: FEATURE_AUTOMOTIVE now vetoes the Android TV
verdict, so a rotary-only head unit no longer inherits the leanback
experience. Picture-in-picture is gated on FEATURE_PICTURE_IN_PICTURE,
which cars lack, so the app's UI cannot stay on screen while driving, and
nothing forces a preferred orientation on a fixed-orientation display.
Consolidates duplicated logic behind shared implementations — paginated
grid tabs, focus chrome, cached remote stores, sheet selection columns,
the server artifact store and a test fixture layer — and removes code
that had become unreachable. Net reduction of about 5,500 lines with no
behaviour change.
Where a fix had landed separately in code that moved into a shared
helper, the fix was re-applied inside the helper rather than left behind
in the copy that went away.
Deduplicates the hand-rolled coalescing/caching maps, the Plex client cast,
the missing-serverId event guard and the progress-failure backoff, and drops
the MusicPlaybackService availability gate, which could never fail in
production.
Introduces shared seams for paginated views, D-pad reorder, media control
routing, async singletons and the device method channel, then points the
open-coded copies at them.
Also removes unused models and duplicated provider/server plumbing, folds
the twice-implemented artifact store in the server, and factors the
repeated Flutter toolchain prologue in CI into a composite action.
All timed presets shared one 'timed' bool, so arming any of 15/30/60
minutes checkmarked all three. The service now retains the armed
duration (sleepTimerDuration) and the menu marks the matching preset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A queue edit can un-arm the next entry in the same instant mpv rolls
into it; the resulting transition was dropped as unexpected, leaving the
UI and progress reporting on the finished track for the entire next
file. Remember the cleared arm (generation-gated) so the transition is
still adopted, and handle the armed track no longer being in the queue:
advance to the queue's real next, or park when nothing follows. Also
fixes the latent fallthrough that left the cursor on the finished track
when the armed track vanished from the queue.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The platforms advertise stop, skip forward/backward, and playback-rate
commands by default, but both the music and video handlers silently
dropped them (Android Auto/Bluetooth stop and FF/rewind did nothing;
iOS/macOS showed a dead rate control). setControlsEnabled now manages
those controls: music handles Stop and in-track skips and stops
advertising a speed control; video handles Stop (exit, matching the
companion remote), skips via a shared relative-seek helper, and rate
changes through player.setRate. Skip commands stay off on iOS/macOS
where they would displace the next/previous lock-screen buttons.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bumps os_media_controls to 4f4b28f3: MediaStyle foreground service with
a JUnit-tested promote/demote/stop policy, artwork URL download (also
fixes video lock-screen art), and task-removal teardown that can't leak
orphan notifications. The music service opts into background mode per
session and requests POST_NOTIFICATIONS before first playback.
Audio-only mpv core on every platform (dedicated
com.plezy/mpv_audio_player channels): parameterized android/windows/
linux mpv plugins and a new apple MpvAudioPlayerCore, all skipping
video/window paths (vid=no, audio-display=no, gapless-audio=weak).
MusicPlaybackService drives an in-memory queue with shuffle/repeat,
file-loaded-event gapless arming (property edges coalesce and the
android bridge drops them), per-track progress reporting, OS media
controls, audio focus, sleep timer, and error auto-skip.
PlaybackCoordinator enforces one live native player: starting video
disposes the audio core first.
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