How to implement queue management?

Tinkering Roon API
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Is it possible to get the list of queue items with node-roon-api?
And perform actions on these items (remove from queue, play from here, move…)?

If it is possible, where should I look to find out how to implement it? Any examples or documentation would be great.

If it is not possible, will it be in the future?

Thank you

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Some queue functionality was added in version 2 of the transport API:

The queue functions are:

  • Support for subscribing to the play queue for a specific zone
  • Support for playing from specific points in the play queue for that zone

The matching functions are subscribe_queue and play_from_here. I haven’t tried them myself but my guess would be that the first gives you a list with the items in the queue, each with a queue_item_id which you then can supply to the second function to start playback from a certain point. These functions could provide functionality to show what plays next and things like that.

Unfortunately jsdoc comments haven’t been added to these new functions yet, so some experimenting is probably required.

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Thank you.

I managed to do just what you said with those two functions. I can list upcoming queue items, get queue change events and play from specific item in queue. The rest regarding the queue, I think, is not possible (yet).

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