Wishlist: announce

[sabline1]

This is a suggestion for a new functionality that could be very useful for home automation.
The current playlist is suspended during a announce, then resumes at same point.

It would be great to be able to request playing a (usually short) track as an announce: the current status is saved, the track is played, and the player retrieves previous context (same status stopped/paused/playing, same playlist, same track, same place in the track...).
If the sound currently playing is a stream (e.g. a radio), the player continues with live stream position after the announce (no buffering/delay of the stream). If the sound currently playing is a track (e.g. from a collection), the track is paused during the announce and continues after the announce.
The announce behaviour shall apply to a player or group of synced players.
An announce may or may not return to a previous announce that has been interrupted (let's start with the easiest, probably not stacking contexts). A relatively simple behaviour could roughly be:

When a request for playing an announce is received:
  If an announce is currently playing:
    The new announce begins playing immediately
  Else (no currently playing announce):
    The context is saved
    The announce is played
When the announce is finished playing:
  Restore context

[michaelherger]

Isn't this covered by the playlist preview command (https://lyrion.org/reference/cli/playlist/#playlist-preview)?

[sabline1]

Isn't this covered by the playlist preview command?

I understand that playlist preview replaces current playlist (which is saved in a temporary file), but doesn't automatically resumes playing the previous (saved) one after the preview, is it right?
And anyway, it would only resume at the beginning of the track, not at the suspension point, wouldn't it?

[michaelherger]

Give it a try. I'm pretty sure you can resume playback. If in doubt I suggest you join forums.slimdevices.com where there are more people who might have experience with the command. But IIRC it really was implemented for the very purpose of playing something in between and resuming playback afterwards.

[michaelherger]

Can this be closed?