feat:Playlist option in Audio player with Queue, mix between 2 tracks, preloading of next track, etc.

[JEANJACO]

Plugin(s)

• Accelerometer
• Age Signals
• Android Battery Optimization
• Android Dark Mode Support
• Android Edge-to-Edge Support
• Android Foreground Service
• App Review
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• App Update
• Asset Manager
• Audio Player
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• Badge
• Barometer
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• Bluetooth Low Energy
• Cloudinary
• Contacts
• Datetime Picker
• File Compressor
• File Opener
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• Geocoder
• libSQL
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• Managed Configurations
• Media Session
• NFC
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• Photo Editor
• Posthog
• Purchases
• Printer
• RealtimeKit
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• Screen Orientation
• Screenshot
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• Share Target
• SQLite
• Torch
• Zip

Current problem

It could be nice to have an option to set multiple title when init.

This would allow us to use player to play playlist with multiple tracks inside, and so preload the next track for exemple before the playing one ends.

It could also allow us to choose a preset (fade, mix, etc.) to play between 2 tracks (to not have a blank between 2 tracks)

Preferred solution

NA

Alternative options

No response

Additional context

No response

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[JEANJACO]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Yes. Currently, implementing a playlist requires listening to the stop event in JavaScript and then calling play() for the next track.

On some Android devices (especially older versions or aggressive ROMs like Xiaomi/Samsung), the JavaScript thread is suspended immediately when the audio hardware stops playing if the screen is locked. This happens even with a Foreground Service active. This creates a race condition where the WebView is paused during the silence between tracks, causing the playlist to stop completely until the user wakes up the device.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like a way to enqueue the next track natively so the transition happens entirely on the native side (Java/Kotlin/Swift), without requiring a round-trip to the JavaScript thread.

Ideally, an API like:

TypeScript

// Enqueue the next item while the current one is playing
await AudioPlayer.enqueue({
url: 'https://...',
// ... options
});
Or a playlist method:

TypeScript

await AudioPlayer.playQueue({
tracks: [ ... ]
});
Describe alternatives you've considered I have optimized my app with capacitor-android-foreground-service and aggressive battery settings. However, on strict Android verisons (Android 8/9 on MIUI), the delay for the JS execution is still enough for the OS to kill the process between tracks. Native handling is the only way to guarantee gapless/continuous playback on these devices.

Additional context Tested on Redmi 6A (Android 8.1). The stop event fires, but the subsequent play call is throttled/blocked by the OS power saving mode.

[robingenz]

Nice idea! I will create a dev version for testing in the next few days.

[JEANJACO]

It would be rly nice ! And if we could activate loop on last playing playlist and have playlist queue it could be awesome !

[JEANJACO]

It could also be nice to fix the problem of loading from url on iOS (i had to download the track before play it because remote from https isnt working - or maybe it is the specials chars problem i mentionned on other topic), and preload the next track could be nice too in sort the user does not wait before the next track start, and also being able to hide tracks in a playlist (in sort tracks are not played, but being able to unhide track -> in sort it doen't change the order of the tracks in the playlist). A fade option would be awesome too to transition the tracks. I know i ask much but its what i need for the app i want to deliver of playlist player :)

If you need i can make you a spec file detailed.

[robingenz]

Yes, I will look into all of this. We just need to finish the Capacitor 8 migration this week.

[JEANJACO]

Thanks you so much. If you want to see what my app looks like, you can tell me and i send you an example of build or the source code in pm :)