MEDIA_SEARCH, MEDIA_PLAY_FROM_SEARCH, ACTION_SHOW_CURRENT

[Sasuke]

I'm trying to facilitate some functions using SWC & external device for copilot.

 

• Poweramp build number (available in Poweramp Settings / About)

Builds 948-957

• your device model

Car radio, Emulator, Phone

• your Android version

10, 7.1, 13

• your custom ROM name/version (if you're on custom ROM)

Stock android

• steps to reproduce

see video

Issues
00:30
- When querying album, spaces break the query

01:23, 02:13
- When querying artist or album with MEDIA_SEARCH the last category view is shown

Use cases
I would like to have a combination of MEDIA_SEARCH and MEDIA_PLAY_FROM_SEARCH

#1 if a song is playing, I might want to search 
    a) the corresponding album while the current song keeps playing -> MEDIA_SEARCH, ALBUM VIEW
    b) the artist's songs while the current song keeps playing -> MEDIA_SEARCH, ALL ARTIST SONGS VIEW
#2 if nothing is playing, search for album/artist (with spaces) and start the first song -> MEDIA_PLAY_FROM_SEARCH with it's view

Am I doing something wrong? Does it work like designed? Is the above possible?

 

Thanks

[maxmp]

@Sasuke could you please post the exact queries (or intent dumps) you send to Poweramp? The query parsers focused and polished for Google Assistant mostly.

[Sasuke]

Hi max

Thanks for taking a look - and for your great app! 😁

I'm not quite sure if I understand you correctly.
Google Assistant is not used at all.

I'm using Llamalab Automate and these are the queries:

1)     Check if media is playing
    Media player package: com.maxmpz.audioplayer
    If yes, Save Album and Artist name as variables

    If yes, 
    1a) Broadcast receive: com.maxmpz.audioplayer.TRACK_CHANGED
        Although I just used it for checking stuff. 

    If not,
    1b) variables will be set in input dialog

2)    Set SearchMediaAction Variable to either
    MEDIA_PLAY_FROM_SEARCH or MEDIA_SEARCH
    
3)     Since spaces are apparently not supported in album name:
    Variable MyAlbum is splitted by " " and only the first word is saved in MyAlbum
    
4)    Broadcast send
    package: com.maxmpz.audioplayer
    Receiver class: com.maxmpz.audioplayer.player.PowerampAPIReceiver
    Action: SearchMediaAction
    Extras for album: {"android.intent.extra.album": MyAlbum, "android.intent.extra.focus": "vnd.android.cursor.item/album"}
    Extras for artist: {"android.intent.extra.artist": MyArtist, "android.intent.extra.focus": "vnd.android.cursor.item/artist"}
    
5)    0.5s delay

6)    App start
    package: com.maxmpz.audioplayer
    Activity class: com.maxmpz.audioplayer.player.StartupActivity
    Action: com.maxmpz.audioplayer.ACTION_SHOW_CURRENT

Choice dialog (NO) explanation:
since I use the same SWC button for play/pause, the first dialog (MEDIA_PLAY_FROM_SEARCH or MEDIA_SEARCH) was just for the video.
When choice dialog is not used it will play or pause the song after the timeout.