playlist tied playing queue

[goyalyashpal]

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Feature description

allow the playing queue to be tied to a playlist for the session.
this would imply these two things:

• playing next / previous / any-random item updates the whole playing queue:
  including those behind the current played / newly played video.

• no video can be added / removed / reordered in the playing queue ad-hoc.
  modify the playlist itself to accomplish this.

though this use-case mentioned below seems valid only for server side playlists, but the local playlist won't need any exception to / super special handling for this feature either.

Why do you want this feature?

• adopting from dynamic load [auto-enqueue workaround] the server playlist to playing queue #12512

  • i often curate videos in playlists with my yt account on desktop web.
  • while curating, i open those playlists side-by-side on second device (mobile) to:
    • confirm if the video added is suitable for the playlist or not; and
    • if yes, then at what position should it be placed

  due to lack of this functionality one can't use newpipe for this purpose

currently the playing queue in newpipe works entirely in ad-hoc manner. while this is great for the following, but this creates a void in functionality and prohibits active use-cases of playlist:

• modularity and unix-like philosophy of doing just only one thing
• passive / laid back usage of playlists

Additional information

technically, the behaviour whole user experience of server playlist should match exactly that of youtube web playlist i.e.:

• 1. playlist info can be refreshed: Allow to manually refresh remote playlist contents #8975
• 2. enqueuing the playlist loads all the videos of playlist: functionality [ALREADY AVAILABLE]
• 3. the playing queue becomes tied only to that playlist for the session [THIS ISSUE]
  • a. playing next / previous updates the whole playing queue: including those behind the current played video.
  • b. no video can be added / removed / reordered in the playing queue ad-hoc. modify the playlist to accomplish this.

[goyalyashpal]

• the front facing trigger for this can be to add "play this playlist" button.
• in current newpipe, it would conflate with the "play all" button.

but:

• the "play all" button's functionality is logically same as "enqueue all".
• these buttons are currently separate only due to the huge difference in "main player" and "background player" in newpipe. but these differences will likely be resolved by:
  • Introducing NewPlayer #11603 (comment)
• thus the "play all" button will get freed up.

[goyalyashpal]

related other issue whose UX will be solved by this issue:

• Support for extracting playlist and video simultaneously NewPipeExtractor#671