Set the parameters which should be used to retrieve new tracks when QUEUE_DYNAMIC playback queue mode has been set with setPlaybackQueueMode method.
The result of this method is that the player will start retrieve tracks to be played based on the specified parameters and automatically add them to the playback queue.
The purpose is to be able to easily
- Play random music you have access to
- Play random music within your collection
- Play random music which are part of one of your playlists
- Play random music from your friends libraries
- Play random music from a specific artist
- Play random music from a specific playlist
- Play random music from a specific category/genre
It’s not mandatory for all content services to support all of these playlist types. So even if the controller specifies a long list of services the player might only be able to get tracks from a few of them because the rest might not support the selection parameter type specified.
Request:
{
"jsonrpc": 2.0,
"id": < A unique number used to correlate requests with responses, see JSON-RPC specification for more information >,
"method": "setDynamicPlaybackQueueParameters",
"params": {
"services": [ <Tracks will only be retrieved from the specified services>
{
"service": <service identity>,
"weight": <optional, weight as a float between 0.0 to 1.0, where not specified means 1.0>
"selectionParameters": { <optional, selection parameters specific to a specific service
this parameter overrides anything specified on the top level selectionParameters attributes>
"type": <Type of selection>,
"data": <JSON data that defines the selection logic>
}
},
...
],
"numberOfLeadingItems": <Optional, number of tracks to get ahead of current position in the playback queue.
A default value of 10 should be used if not specified.>
"maximumQueueLength": <Optional, maximum number of tracks totally in the playback queue. >
"selectionParameters": { <selection parmeters, mandatory to specify unless specific selection parameters
have been specified for each individual service under the services parameter>
"type": <Type of selection>,
"data": <JSON data that defines the selection logic>
}
}
}
Specific information:
- When this method is called, the playback queue mode will automatically switched to QUEUE_DYNAMIC
- The tracks which are in the current playback queue before this method is called should remain, a controller have to call setTracks to clear or set the initial set of tracks if it want to initially load tracks based on the dynamic playback queue parameters.
- The player is responsible to use the parameters defined to
continuously call the
getNextDynamicPlaylistTracks
method in the Content Access
Protocol to retrieve more
tracks as needed.
- The player should retrieve tracks according to the weight parameter specified in the services entries and ensure that the playback queue is always filled with the number of tracks specified in numberOfLeadingItems parameter.
- The player should remove played tracks to ensure that the playback queue doesn’t become larger than the value specified in maximumQueueLength parameter. If maximumQueueLength has not been specified the player should let the playback queue grow as much as possible before it starts removing played tracks from the queue.
- For more detailed information about the selectionParameters parameter, see the documentation for getNextDynamicPlaylistTracks method in the Content Access Protocol
Response:
{
"jsonrpc": 2.0,
"id": < The request identity >,
"result": {
"result": <true if tracks were successfully added >
"playbackQueuePos": < Position of currently playing track within the playback queue >
}
}