remove Now Playing/Queue from playlist(s)

[zacaj]

Would be nice ability to remove a song from a playlist without being on that playlist's page at the time (+potentially ability to see what playlists a song is/isn't in).

Main use case is that, if I'm listening to a playlist and a song comes up that I decide I don't want in that playlist.. I have to go and find that playlist again manually, then find the song in that playlist, before I can actually remove it.

Spotify allows you to right click on the now playing song and there's a dedicated option to remove it from the playlist it was played from.

This would require storing some info in the queue about where a song was queued from, but I think that could also be handy for other things (eg, #471) too? May require using local queue storage instead of server?

Another really nice extension of this would be for the "Add to Playlist" option that's there right now to actually display whether a song is in each playlist or not. This would both be nice information to have, and also then allow to have an option to remove the song from playlist(s) right there, regardless if it's the specific playlist a song was played from before. I don't thing subsonic supports this right now in any direct way, so it'd probably have to be brute force unless we can get it added, unless you can think of a more efficient way to determine it?

[dweymouth]

There isn't a good way to determine what playlists a song is a part of, other than brute-forcing it which I don't want to do. So that will have to wait until at some point, maybe there is a proper API for it. Removing the song from the playlist it was queued from could be done as you noted by keeping track of whether the song was queued from a playlist. I'd be open to adding this as a feature, especially if it's already something that has a precedent in Spotify, if you or anyone else is interested in making a PR.

[zacaj]

Do you think a "what playlists is this song in" endpoint is worth me going to opensubsonic to propose?

Will put the "remove from source playlist" concept on my list for next time I get in the subsonic coding mindset unless someone else gets into it first

[dweymouth]

It doesn't hurt to propose an endpoint, but discussions in OpenSubsonic tend to progress slowly or even stall out. Also this one would need considerable efforts from servers as they would have to add a new DB table or index for the song -> playlists mapping.

[zacaj]

yeah I haven't really gotten anywhere with any of my proposals there so far...

at least with eg, navidrome which I'm familiar with, I don't think that endpoint would take that much effort. They store playlist contents as a join table between the playlist and the tracks so it's nearly the same thing to query it one direction as the other. I'd be surprised if most servers aren't similar, but maybe I'm missing some complication here