react-native-audio-browser 0.2.0-next.3 → 0.2.0-next.31

package/website/guide/playback.md

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+---
+description: 'Control the active track — play, pause, stop, seek, playback state, progress, rate, and volume — the toolkit for building your own player UI.'
+---
+
+# Playback
+
+This guide covers **controlling the active track** — transport (play / pause /
+stop), seeking, playback state, progress, rate, and volume. It's the toolkit for
+building your own player UI.
+
+Playback acts on whatever the **active track** is. _Which_ track that is — and
+moving between tracks with next/previous — belongs to the [queue](/guide/basic-usage#the-queue);
+this page is about playing the one that's already active. The system surfaces
+(lock screen, notification, car) are covered in [Now Playing](/guide/now-playing).
+
+> All functions here are synchronous and safe to call before a track is loaded —
+> they're no-ops or update intent rather than throwing.
+
+The UI snippets below import `useState` from `react`, `Text` / `Button` /
+`Switch` from `react-native`, and `Slider` from
+`@react-native-community/slider`; those import lines are omitted for brevity.
+Everything else comes from `react-native-audio-browser`.
+
+## Transport controls
+
+```ts
+import { play, pause, togglePlayback, stop } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+play() // play or resume the active track
+pause() // pause, keeping position
+togglePlayback() // flip between play and pause
+stop() // stop and reset position to the start
+```
+
+`stop` keeps the track loaded — `play()` afterwards starts it again from the
+beginning. (For live streams there's no position to reset, so it just stops.)
+That's different from `reset`, which stops playback **and clears the queue**:
+
+```ts
+import { reset } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+reset() // tear down: stop + empty the queue
+```
+
+|           | Position       | Track stays loaded | Queue   |
+| --------- | -------------- | ------------------ | ------- |
+| `pause()` | kept           | yes                | kept    |
+| `stop()`  | reset to start | yes                | kept    |
+| `reset()` | —              | no                 | cleared |
+
+## Seeking
+
+Seek within the active track by an absolute position or a relative offset, both
+in **seconds**:
+
+```ts
+import { seekTo, seekBy } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+seekTo(90) // jump to 1:30
+seekBy(30) // skip ahead 30s
+seekBy(-15) // back 15s
+```
+
+For live streams, jump back to the live edge (a no-op for non-live tracks):
+
+```ts
+import { seekToLiveEdge } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+seekToLiveEdge()
+```
+
+Moving between tracks (next / previous / skip) is part of the
+[queue](/guide/basic-usage#the-queue), not seeking.
+
+## Playback state
+
+`usePlayback` returns the current `{ state, error }`. The `state` is one of:
+
+| State         | Meaning                                        |
+| ------------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
+| `'none'`      | Idle — no track loaded (initial state).        |
+| `'loading'`   | Loading the item before playback can begin.    |
+| `'ready'`     | Track loaded and ready, currently paused.      |
+| `'playing'`   | Currently playing.                             |
+| `'buffering'` | Loading more data before it can continue.      |
+| `'paused'`    | Paused.                                        |
+| `'stopped'`   | Stopped.                                       |
+| `'ended'`     | Reached the end of the queue.                  |
+| `'error'`     | Playback failed — see [Errors](/guide/errors). |
+
+```tsx
+import { usePlayback, retry } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+function PlayerStatus() {
+  const { state } = usePlayback() // `error` is also here — see Errors
+
+  if (state === 'error') {
+    return <Button title="Retry" onPress={() => retry()} />
+  }
+  return <Text>{state}</Text>
+}
+```
+
+`retry()` only does something while the state is `'error'`; it re-attempts the
+current item. See [Errors](/guide/errors) for the error shape and handling.
+
+### Just playing or buffering?
+
+For a play/pause button, drive it off `usePlayingState` — not
+`state === 'playing'` — so it isn't thrown off by the `loading`/`buffering`
+states. It gives you two booleans and re-renders only when they flip:
+
+```tsx
+import { usePlayingState, togglePlayback } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+function PlayPauseButton() {
+  const { playing, buffering } = usePlayingState()
+
+  return (
+    <Button
+      title={buffering ? 'Loading…' : playing ? 'Pause' : 'Play'}
+      onPress={() => togglePlayback()}
+    />
+  )
+}
+```
+
+### Play-when-ready
+
+`playWhenReady` is the **intent** to play, separate from whether audio is
+actually coming out yet (it may still be loading or buffering). Setting it is
+equivalent to calling `play()` / `pause()`:
+
+```tsx
+import { setPlayWhenReady, usePlayWhenReady } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+setPlayWhenReady(true) // same as play()
+
+function PlayToggle() {
+  const wantsToPlay = usePlayWhenReady()
+  return (
+    <Switch
+      value={wantsToPlay}
+      onValueChange={(next) => setPlayWhenReady(next)}
+    />
+  )
+}
+```
+
+Use `usePlayWhenReady` when your control should reflect the user's _intent_
+immediately (the toggle flips the instant they tap, even while buffering); use
+`usePlayingState` when it should reflect whether sound is actually playing.
+
+## Progress
+
+Progress is `{ position, duration, buffered }`, all in seconds. There are two
+hooks, and the difference matters:
+
+- **`usePolledProgress(intervalMs?)`** — polls on a timer (default 1000 **ms**).
+  Works out of the box, and automatically pauses while the app is backgrounded.
+  **Start here.**
+- **`useProgress()`** — driven by native progress events. These are
+  **disabled by default** (`progressUpdateEventInterval` is `null`), so this
+  hook won't update until you turn them on (see below).
+
+> **Mind the units.** `usePolledProgress` takes its interval in
+> **milliseconds**; `progressUpdateEventInterval` (below) is in **seconds**.
+
+```tsx
+import { usePolledProgress, seekTo } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+function Scrubber() {
+  const { position, duration } = usePolledProgress()
+
+  return (
+    <Slider
+      minimumValue={0}
+      maximumValue={duration || 1}
+      value={position}
+      // Seek when the user releases the thumb.
+      onSlidingComplete={(seconds) => seekTo(seconds)}
+    />
+  )
+}
+```
+
+To use the event-based `useProgress` instead, enable progress events once at
+setup by setting how often they fire (in seconds):
+
+```ts
+import { setupPlayer } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+await setupPlayer({ progressUpdateEventInterval: 0.5 })
+// or later: updateOptions({ progressUpdateEventInterval: 0.5 })
+```
+
+Outside React, `getProgress()` returns a one-off snapshot of the current
+position/duration/buffered — it's a plain getter and is **never** gated, so it
+works even with progress events off. Only the `onProgressUpdated` event (and
+therefore `useProgress`) depends on `progressUpdateEventInterval`.
+
+## Playback rate
+
+Rate is a multiplier: `1` is normal, `0.5` half speed, `2` double. Handy for
+podcasts and audiobooks:
+
+```ts
+import { getRate, setRate } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+setRate(1.5) // 1.5× speed
+getRate() // → current rate
+```
+
+Rate is a speed multiplier, not a transport control: it's independent of
+play/pause, and setting it while paused doesn't start playback. Pass a value
+greater than zero — the platforms disagree on what a non-positive rate does
+(iOS ignores it, Android throws, web stalls the audio element), so treat it as
+unsupported rather than as a way to pause.
+
+There's no reactive hook for rate (it only changes when you set it), so a
+control that displays the current speed just holds it in local state:
+
+```tsx
+function SpeedControl() {
+  const [rate, setRateState] = useState(() => getRate())
+  const cycle = () => {
+    const next = rate >= 2 ? 0.5 : rate + 0.5
+    setRate(next) // tell the player
+    setRateState(next) // update the label
+  }
+  return <Button title={`${rate.toFixed(1)}×`} onPress={cycle} />
+}
+```
+
+## Volume
+
+There are two distinct volumes:
+
+- **Player volume** — this player's own level, `0`–`1`. Use it for in-app
+  controls, ducking, or fades.
+- **System volume** — the device's media volume, `0`–`1`.
+
+Player volume has no reactive hook (it only changes when you set it), so a
+controlled `<Slider>` holds the value in local state — seed it from `getVolume()`
+and write through to `setVolume`:
+
+```tsx
+import { getVolume, setVolume } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+function VolumeSlider() {
+  const [volume, setVolumeState] = useState(() => getVolume())
+  return (
+    <Slider
+      minimumValue={0}
+      maximumValue={1}
+      value={volume}
+      onValueChange={(next) => {
+        setVolume(next) // apply to the player
+        setVolumeState(next) // keep the slider in sync
+      }}
+    />
+  )
+}
+```
+
+System volume _does_ have a hook, since the hardware buttons can change it
+behind your back:
+
+```tsx
+import { useSystemVolume } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+function SystemVolumeLabel() {
+  const volume = useSystemVolume() // re-renders on hardware volume keys
+  return <Text>{Math.round(volume * 100)}%</Text>
+}
+```
+
+`setSystemVolume` is a **no-op on iOS** — Apple provides no public API to set
+the system volume (use the player volume there instead). Reading it and
+`useSystemVolume` work on both platforms.
+
+## Measuring listening time
+
+`trackPlaybackTime` calls you back every N seconds of **actual playback** — the
+clock advances only while the state is `'playing'` and freezes on
+pause/buffering/stop, so paused time never inflates the count. It's built for
+"still listening" analytics pings:
+
+```ts
+import { trackPlaybackTime } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+// Fire every 30 seconds of real listening. `sendHeartbeat` is your own
+// analytics call. The callback also gets `sinceLast` (seconds since the
+// previous fire) if you'd rather report deltas than the running total.
+const cancel = trackPlaybackTime(({ total, sinceLast, track }) => {
+  sendHeartbeat({ seconds: total, trackId: track?.id })
+}, 30)
+
+// later:
+cancel()
+```
+
+`period` must be `>= 1` (it throws otherwise). The clock is cumulative across
+the whole session and
+counts _all_ play time, not per-track — `total` keeps climbing through track
+changes. To measure per track, cancel and re-subscribe whenever the
+[active track changes](/guide/now-playing). It's a coarse, ~1-second-resolution
+signal, not a precise timer.
+
+## API summary
+
+| API                                             | Purpose                                                                 |
+| ----------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `play()` / `pause()` / `togglePlayback()`       | Start, pause, or flip playback.                                         |
+| `stop()`                                        | Stop and reset position; track stays loaded.                            |
+| `reset()`                                       | Stop **and** clear the queue.                                           |
+| `seekTo(seconds)` / `seekBy(offset)`            | Seek to an absolute / relative position.                                |
+| `seekToLiveEdge()`                              | Jump to the live edge (no-op if not live).                              |
+| `usePlayback()` / `getPlayback()`               | Full `{ state, error }`; subscribe via `onPlaybackChanged`.             |
+| `retry()`                                       | Re-attempt the current item while in the `'error'` state.               |
+| `usePlayingState()`                             | `{ playing, buffering }` booleans for a play/pause button.              |
+| `setPlayWhenReady(bool)` / `usePlayWhenReady()` | Play/pause _intent_, independent of buffering.                          |
+| `usePolledProgress(intervalMs?)`                | `{ position, duration, buffered }` via polling (ms) — works by default. |
+| `useProgress()` / `getProgress()`               | Progress via events (enable `progressUpdateEventInterval` first).       |
+| `getRate()` / `setRate(rate)`                   | Playback speed multiplier (`1` = normal).                               |
+| `getVolume()` / `setVolume(0..1)`               | This player's volume.                                                   |
+| `getSystemVolume()` / `useSystemVolume()`       | Device media volume (`setSystemVolume` is iOS no-op).                   |
+| `trackPlaybackTime(cb, period)`                 | Heartbeat every `period` seconds of real playback.                      |

package/website/guide/queue.md

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+---
+description: 'Build and edit the queue, move between tracks with next and previous, and read it back for an "up next" UI.'
+---
+
+# Queue
+
+The **queue** is the ordered list of tracks the player works through. The track
+at the current position is the **active track** — it's what plays, and what
+next/previous move between. This guide covers building the queue, editing it,
+moving between tracks, and reading it back for an "up next" UI.
+
+For the first-time setup and the browse-tree concept, see
+[Basic Usage](/guide/basic-usage#the-queue). For transport (play / pause / seek
+_within_ the active track), see [Playback](/guide/playback). The system
+surfaces (lock screen, car) are in [Now Playing](/guide/now-playing).
+
+The UI snippets below import `View` / `Text` / `Button` / `FlatList` from
+`react-native`; those import lines are omitted for brevity. Everything else
+comes from `react-native-audio-browser`.
+
+## Setting the queue
+
+[`setQueue`](/api/features/queue/#setqueue) replaces the entire queue.
+Optionally pass which track to make active and where to start it:
+
+```ts
+import { setQueue, play } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+setQueue(tracks) // replace; first track becomes active
+setQueue(tracks, 2) // start on index 2
+setQueue(tracks, 2, 30) // ...30 seconds in
+```
+
+One thing to know:
+
+- **It doesn't start playback.** `setQueue` leaves the play/pause state as-is —
+  if the player was paused it stays paused. Call
+  [`play()`](/api/features/playback/#play) to begin (see [Playback](/guide/playback)).
+
+So the usual "load these and play" is two calls:
+
+```ts
+setQueue(tracks) // or setQueue(tracks, startIndex)
+play() // start playback
+```
+
+## Reading the queue
+
+[`useQueue`](/api/features/queue/#usequeue) returns the current
+[`Track[]`](/api/types/browser-nodes/#track) and re-renders whenever it changes
+(add, remove, reorder, or metadata update):
+
+```tsx
+import { useQueue } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+function QueueList() {
+  const queue = useQueue()
+  return (
+    <FlatList
+      data={queue}
+      keyExtractor={(track, i) => track.id ?? String(i)}
+      renderItem={({ item }) => <Text>{item.title}</Text>}
+    />
+  )
+}
+```
+
+Outside React, read a snapshot with
+[`getQueue()`](/api/features/queue/#getqueue), or a single entry with
+[`getTrack(index)`](/api/features/queue/#gettrack) (returns `undefined` if the
+index is empty). To react to changes without a hook, subscribe to
+[`onQueueChanged`](/api/features/queue/#onqueuechanged) — it fires with the new
+queue on every add, remove, reorder, or metadata update.
+
+## The active track
+
+[`useActiveTrack`](/api/features/queue/#useactivetrack) returns the currently
+playing [`Track`](/api/types/browser-nodes/#track) (or `undefined` when nothing
+is loaded):
+
+```tsx
+import { useActiveTrack } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+function NowPlaying() {
+  const track = useActiveTrack()
+  return <Text>{track?.title ?? 'Nothing playing'}</Text>
+}
+```
+
+Outside React, use [`getActiveTrack()`](/api/features/queue/#getactivetrack) and
+[`getActiveTrackIndex()`](/api/features/queue/#getactivetrackindex). To react to
+_changes_ — e.g. for per-track analytics — subscribe to
+[`onActiveTrackChanged`](/api/features/queue/#onactivetrackchanged), which also
+reports the track you're leaving:
+
+```ts
+import { onActiveTrackChanged } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+const unsubscribe = onActiveTrackChanged.addListener((event) => {
+  console.log('now playing', event.track?.title)
+  console.log('left off', event.lastTrack?.title, 'at', event.lastPosition)
+})
+```
+
+## Moving between tracks
+
+Jump to a track by index, or step to the next/previous one. Each optionally
+takes a start position **in seconds**:
+
+```ts
+import { skip, skipToNext, skipToPrevious } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+skip(3) // jump to index 3
+skipToNext() // next track
+skipToPrevious() // previous track
+skipToNext(10) // next track, starting 10 seconds in
+```
+
+This is how you move _between_ tracks
+([`skip`](/api/features/queue/#skip),
+[`skipToNext`](/api/features/queue/#skiptonext),
+[`skipToPrevious`](/api/features/queue/#skiptoprevious)); seeking _within_ the
+active track (`seekTo` / `seekBy`) lives in [Playback](/guide/playback).
+
+## Editing the queue
+
+[`add`](/api/features/queue/#add), [`move`](/api/features/queue/#move),
+[`remove`](/api/features/queue/#remove),
+[`removeUpcomingTracks`](/api/features/queue/#removeupcomingtracks), and
+[`load`](/api/features/queue/#load) edit the queue without rebuilding it.
+Indexes refer to positions in the current queue (the same order `useQueue`
+returns).
+
+```ts
+import {
+  add,
+  move,
+  remove,
+  removeUpcomingTracks,
+  load
+} from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+add(track) // append one track (also accepts a Track[])
+add(track, 0) // insert before index 0 (front of the queue)
+
+move(4, 1) // move index 4 to index 1
+// toIndex past the end moves the track to the end.
+
+remove(2) // remove index 2 (also accepts number[])
+removeUpcomingTracks() // drop everything after the active track
+
+load(track) // replace the active track (or start the queue if empty)
+```
+
+The second argument to `add` is an **absolute** index, not "after the active
+track". For a real **play-next** button, insert right after the active track:
+
+```ts
+import { add, getActiveTrackIndex } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+const i = getActiveTrackIndex()
+add(track, i === undefined ? 0 : i + 1)
+```
+
+**Removing the active track** doesn't stop playback: the next track becomes
+active, or — if you removed the last one — the first track does.
+
+## Repeat and shuffle
+
+[Repeat mode](/api/features/queue/#userepeatmode) is one of `'off'`, `'track'`,
+or `'queue'`:
+
+| Mode      | Behavior                                         |
+| --------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
+| `'off'`   | Stop when the last track finishes (the default). |
+| `'track'` | Repeat the active track forever.                 |
+| `'queue'` | Loop the whole queue.                            |
+
+```tsx
+import {
+  setRepeatMode,
+  useRepeatMode,
+  toggleShuffle,
+  useShuffle
+} from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+function RepeatButton() {
+  const mode = useRepeatMode()
+  const next = mode === 'off' ? 'queue' : mode === 'queue' ? 'track' : 'off'
+  return (
+    <Button title={`Repeat: ${mode}`} onPress={() => setRepeatMode(next)} />
+  )
+}
+
+function ShuffleButton() {
+  const on = useShuffle()
+  return (
+    <Button
+      title={on ? 'Shuffle: on' : 'Shuffle: off'}
+      onPress={() => toggleShuffle()}
+    />
+  )
+}
+```
+
+[`setShuffle(true | false)`](/api/features/queue/#setshuffle) sets it directly;
+[`toggleShuffle()`](/api/features/queue/#toggleshuffle) flips it.
+
+## When the queue ends
+
+With repeat `'off'`, playback pauses when the last track finishes and the
+playback state becomes `'ended'` (see [Playback](/guide/playback#playback-state)).
+To react — autoplay more, log a session, show a prompt — subscribe to
+[`onQueueEnded`](/api/features/queue/#onqueueended):
+
+```ts
+import { onQueueEnded } from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+const unsubscribe = onQueueEnded.addListener(({ track, position }) => {
+  // `track` is the index that was active; `position` is where it stopped.
+  loadMoreAndPlay()
+})
+```
+
+## A complete "Up Next" screen
+
+`useQueue` plus `useActiveTrack` is enough for a reorderable list with
+tap-to-play and remove:
+
+```tsx
+import { View, Text, Button, FlatList } from 'react-native'
+import {
+  useQueue,
+  useActiveTrack,
+  getActiveTrackIndex,
+  skip,
+  move,
+  remove
+} from 'react-native-audio-browser'
+
+function UpNext() {
+  const queue = useQueue()
+  // `useActiveTrack` re-renders the list when the active track changes; we
+  // compare each row by index (more robust than by id, which is optional on a
+  // Track). `getActiveTrackIndex()` is fresh on each render.
+  const active = useActiveTrack()
+  const activeIndex = active ? getActiveTrackIndex() : undefined
+
+  return (
+    <FlatList
+      data={queue}
+      keyExtractor={(track, i) => track.id ?? String(i)}
+      renderItem={({ item, index }) => (
+        <View style={{ flexDirection: 'row', alignItems: 'center' }}>
+          <Text
+            onPress={() => skip(index)}
+            style={index === activeIndex ? { fontWeight: 'bold' } : null}
+          >
+            {item.title}
+          </Text>
+          {index > 0 && (
+            <Button title="↑" onPress={() => move(index, index - 1)} />
+          )}
+          <Button title="✕" onPress={() => remove(index)} />
+        </View>
+      )}
+    />
+  )
+}
+```
+
+A `<Button>` can't be a child of `<Text>`, so each row is a `<View>` with the
+title and buttons as siblings. The `keyExtractor` falls back to the array index
+when a track has no `id` — fine for a static list, but for a **reorderable**
+list like this one, give your tracks a stable `id` so `move`/`remove` don't
+confuse row identity.
+
+## A note on units
+
+All position arguments are **seconds** — `seekTo`, `seekBy`, the
+`initialPosition` on `skip` / `skipToNext` / `skipToPrevious`, and `setQueue`'s
+`startPosition`.
+
+## API summary
+
+| API                                                               | Purpose                                                         |
+| ----------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `setQueue(tracks, startIndex?, startPosition?)`                   | Replace the queue (doesn't auto-play; position in **seconds**). |
+| `add(track \| tracks, insertBeforeIndex?)`                        | Append, or insert before an index.                              |
+| `load(track)`                                                     | Replace the active track (or start the queue if empty).         |
+| `move(from, to)`                                                  | Reorder; `to` past the end → end.                               |
+| `remove(index \| indexes)`                                        | Remove track(s); active removal advances.                       |
+| `removeUpcomingTracks()`                                          | Drop everything after the active track.                         |
+| `skip(index, initialPosition?)`                                   | Jump to a track (position in **seconds**).                      |
+| `skipToNext()` / `skipToPrevious()`                               | Step between tracks.                                            |
+| `useQueue()` / `getQueue()` / `getTrack(i)`                       | Read the queue.                                                 |
+| `useActiveTrack()` / `getActiveTrack()` / `getActiveTrackIndex()` | Read the active track.                                          |
+| `onActiveTrackChanged` / `onQueueChanged` / `onQueueEnded`        | Subscribe to changes.                                           |
+| `setRepeatMode(mode)` / `useRepeatMode()`                         | `'off'` / `'track'` / `'queue'`.                                |
+| `setShuffle(bool)` / `toggleShuffle()` / `useShuffle()`           | Shuffle order.                                                  |