[Question] Anybody found an event to detect when a track has ended playing?

[julianCast]

Not an issue, but a question:

The only post I could find is this one https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19645972/chromecast-sdk-android-is-there-a-way-to-check-whether-the-media-playing-on but I wonder if any of you have used a different approach, it looks much for what it is.

The documentation has https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/reference/chrome/chrome.cast.media.Media#addUpdateListener but does not provide such a action.

Thanks!

[Lindsay-Needs-Sleep]

You are on the right track with media.addUpdateListener.

You can see a bunch of example code in the tests directory for this plugin (eg. tests_auto.js).
There is extra stuff going on there, but you might be able to figure out what you need for future things.

For detecting when a track has ended, this is what I used (simplified from the tests_auto.js):

media.addUpdateListener(function listener (isAlive) {
    if (media.playerState === chrome.cast.media.PlayerState.IDLE) {
        if (media.idleReason === chrome.cast.media.IdleReason.FINISHED) {
           // The current media has finished playing by reaching the end
        }
        if (media.idleReason === chrome.cast.media.IdleReason.CANCELLED) {
           // The current media has been stopped (media.stop)
        }
        if (media.idleReason === chrome.cast.media.IdleReason.INTERRUPTED) {
           // The current media has ended because new media has been loaded (media.queueJumpToItem)
        }
    }
});

Here is some of the relevant documentation:
playerState
idleReason

[julianCast]

That is great, thank you again.
I was wrongly only using addUpdateListener function from the session, not the media.

[Lindsay-Needs-Sleep]

Ahh, yep, easy mistake to make!
np! 👍