Integrate with Mac OS media player APIs

[dweymouth]

Add integrations with MPRemoteCommandCenter and MPNowPlayingInfoCenter to receive media key events and export playback info to the Mac OS desktop.

[ghost]

Has any progress been made on integrating this feature? I know it's hard to implement the feature cross platform without writing specific logic for each one but I'd love to be able to use media key on OS X.

[dweymouth]

There hasn't been any progress on this other than my investigation into figuring out what the name of the MacOS APIs we need to use are. I have the "help wanted" on this issue as I am not a Mac/iOS developer and have never used Objective-C. Eventually I would get around to trying to learn enough to implement this feature but if you know of any Mac/iOS developers who would be open to contributing please send them this way! :)

[dweymouth]

Or if you feel like helping out I'd gladly review a PR - or even just incorporate a code snippet. What we will need is a C API (ie all the obj-c hidden as an internal implementation detail) to set the metadata and poll for media key events. That can then be wrapped with CGo and integrated into Supersonic. (The Go compiler can compile Obj-C on Mac just fine, it's just that the external API presented to Go must be C). Something like:

void set_metadata(char *title, char *artist, char *album, char *art_url)

// blocks until an external play, pause, prev, next is requested, return event code
int wait_event()

[ghost]

@dweymouth Hey I'd love to help but I'm not a Mac dev either. I tried to look into possible snippets of code I could find online for a C implementation of MPNowPlayingInfoCenter and stumbled across this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40258701/how-to-implementing-mpnowplayinginfocenter-using-avaudioplayer.

I agree that the project could benefit from the goodness of one or multiple developer skilled in IOS/mac dev. The app is really nice but having to use the mouse to control playing is a bit of a dealbreaker.

I will try to look into what I can do but like you I'd need to do a deep dive into the matter and learn quite a few things in the process

[dweymouth]

Will be added in the upcoming release - thanks @zackslash!