Hubot Script - Questions (Stopping current stream, queue up songs)

[evanriley]

I'm currently trying to write a script for Hubot that uses node-spotify-web to play music through the computer that it is located on, you can see it here I'm very new to NodeJS/CoffeeScript/Spotify WebSockets...pretty much everything. So far I have the commands "Play track" and "Play album" thanks to you're examples. My first question is, is there a way to stop the current song playing. I've tried using track.end() but it doesn't stop the current stream.

robot.respond /stop music/i, (message) ->
 track.end()

which does not work.

My second question is, is there a way to Queue up songs to prevent them from overlapping? Currently if one person request a song while another song is playing they simply play over each other.

Thanks!

[adammw]

At the moment, you need to hold a reference to the track stream to somehow abort it or unpipe it, see #38 and #46 for discussion of stopping tracks.

With regards to queuing, node-spotify-web doesn't implement any sort of queuing functionality as we leave all the output up to you to deal with. If you have a look at the playAlbum example, that should give you an idea of how to implement a queue where you add items to an array, then as each song finishes, the next one from the array is retrieved and played until there are none left.

[TooTallNate]

Basically what @adammw said :D Let us know if you have any other questions.