Thread: RESUME and SAVERESUME commands

Originally Posted by toyotatyrant

I've been reading through the RR command list, and I see the SAVERESUME and RESUME commands. I am curious and interested. Other than in the rr config how, if possible, would these commands be implemented in a skin? and are there any examples?

RESUME is NOT related to SAVERESUME -- all RESUME does is resume playback state of a paused song (as opposed to alternating the play/pause state as the PLAY command does by default).

While you should never really need to use it with standard features, there are numerous uses for SAVERESUME. For instance if you create a screen which you want no music/radio playing (cause you'll have something with sound in it), then you can call SAVERESUME, close the player and before you leave the screen you can re-open the player and RR will likely resume whatever was playing when you actually leave the screen. This is one situation, but could be more useful for extension plugins and I have even seen people saving the resume info so they can read status from RR from some other application..

Originally Posted by guino

RESUME is NOT related to SAVERESUME -- all RESUME does is resume playback state of a paused song (as opposed to alternating the play/pause state as the PLAY command does by default).

While you should never really need to use it with standard features, there are numerous uses for SAVERESUME. For instance if you create a screen which you want no music/radio playing (cause you'll have something with sound in it), then you can call SAVERESUME, close the player and before you leave the screen you can re-open the player and RR will likely resume whatever was playing when you actually leave the screen. This is one situation, but could be more useful for extension plugins and I have even seen people saving the resume info so they can read status from RR from some other application..

The use of this function kind of flew over my head in the begining, but based on your reply, I have been experimenting with the saveresume command and have found a few sneaky uses for it. Thanks for the insight.

Originally Posted by guino

For instance if you create a screen which you want no music/radio playing (cause you'll have something with sound in it), then you can call SAVERESUME, close the player and before you leave the screen you can re-open the player and RR will likely resume whatever was playing when you actually leave the screen. This is one situation, but could be more useful for extension plugins and I have even seen people saving the resume info so they can read status from RR from some other application..

I am also interested in this, but can not seem to figure it out.

For instance, I have a CNN new feed that I want to stop mp3 playback for when I go to that screen. How do I then resume the audio when I leave that screen? What is the command to start the MP3 audio again? Does this also restore the playlist?

If you have a screen where you want the audio to stop on it, the easiest thing is to use "PAUSE" before the "LOAD" command to the screen, and "RESUME" before exiting the screen. If you use the same player (i.e. winamp) in that screen, then you can use SAVERESUME/SAVELIST (to a temp file), rename the resume.ini file to something else, stop playback, load your screen (and whatever you want in the player), then right before using the "EXIT" command, use LOADLIST (to your temp file) and restore your resume.ini file (rename it back).. then when EXIT runs, you *should* get the same effect you get when leaving the video player back to the main menu.. but if you really want to go at it, you should probably not save/load the playlist by checking if you're not in audio mode.

Still, if you need something specific in this subject, just let me know and I can probably work on something for you.

Actually, that is exactly how I have been handling it, with that exact "workaround". Just when I saw mention of the saveresume command, I thought there was a better way now incorporated in RR

Something like a SavePosition(Would pause/stop, save the playlist, position in list, and position of song), RestorePosition (Return to the saved state).

I have had to do some of it with AutoIt ect.... But now that I am thinking, I could probably toss together a extension dll to handle all this, now that RR keeps track of what the audio source is.....

This would be handy for any time that you use WA in the skin to play something, then would like to return to where you were. Such as playing a pod cast segment, net radio station ect ect....

its been awhile since i looked at the RRSHoutcast source but i'm managing audio playlist and shoutcast playback within that plugin source. Should you go the extension plugin route i could share the code john.

Originally Posted by JohnWPB

Something like a SavePosition(Would pause/stop, save the playlist, position in list, and position of song), RestorePosition (Return to the saved state).

now i'm intrested , but i think something like you say john , but allow for a user path ,

ie saveposition;$RRpath$NAME.m3u, of course the same for RestorePosition

maybe this could be a Blue to the rescue here , if not in rr itsself.

HAHAHA...

Before I even got to reading the post above, I was wondering if someone was gonna mention such a feature, instead of all that extra non-sence RR code. Two simple cmds, one to save all the current player info to a file which the user specifies the path, or would default to the current skin's path, and the other to just read back in that file and get the ball rolling once again...

Sorta a toss up between RRExtended and RR... I would lean more towards RR b/c that is something that the skinning engine should provide cmd wise..

makes sense this "SAVERESUME" command, then do what ever you want, then use "RESUME" and your back in the game, i have to do some internal code in some plugins, but this 2 commands can be very handy.