Any plans for "seek" function or a "progress" listener?

[brettpappas]

I have used other platforms (Titanium) for playing audio in an app and one critical feature that I am not able to do with this module is to allow someone to "seek" to a certain spot of the audio file. I have done this from a UI standpoint using a scrubber since I knew the length of the audio (number of seconds).

I was also able to display the status of how far along the audio was using a event listener that returned the current progress.

Are these type of features planned?

[tlenclos]

I did not plan any of these features since my usage is just to play a stream of a webradio, so you can't really seek into it.

But this could really be a nice addition, I'll pin this as enhancement and tell me if you plan to work on it. Otherwise I'll see this at the end of the week.

[brettpappas]

It looks like StreamingKit has options for getting the current time (progress) as well as a seekToTime method so I can take a stab at adding this when I have time later this week.

I am not as familiar with the way things work on the Android side so depending on how much success I have on the iOS side I might need help with Android to maintain feature parity.

[tlenclos]

This is using the AAC decoder library (which is quite old) and it doesn't seem to support seek features 😞 . Maybe we should find a better library (the tricky part is handling icy metadata).

[brettpappas]

I just created PR's for both features in iOS. Maybe we can leave it as undocumented features until a solution is found for Android. I can look and see what was used for the project I did using Titanium.

[brettpappas]

Do you think we could use ExoPlayer for the Android side? It seems to support everything we need.

I found a React Native project that uses it already to get some ideas on how to integrate ExoPlayer called react-native-player.

[tlenclos]

This really seems better than the old aacplayer we are currently using.

I'm not sure for the shoutcast support though but these guys seems to have implemented it successfully: google/ExoPlayer#389.

I'll look into it tomorrow, good call.

[donedgardo]

I'll leave this libarary here, its a react native native module for ios networking and does have seek to time feature: it might help. https://github.com/pwbrown/react-native-ios-network-audio

[brettpappas]

I am closing this issue since seek functions have been added for iOS and we have another issue opened to address Android
#12

[alexandergunnarson]

This PR is great! Super useful for me. Question though: when will there be a new/updated release for this library now that this PR has been accepted @tlenclos?

[tlenclos]

I wanted feature parity before releasing a new version but I guess we could publish a minor 👍

[tlenclos]

@alexandergunnarson Done with 2.1.0 https://github.com/tlenclos/react-native-audio-streaming/releases/tag/v2.1.0

[alexandergunnarson]

Awesome, thanks @tlenclos !

[yehancha]

Any code sample on how to get the progress?