MediaMonkey Playlist

[Rudd Milam]

So, Does anyone know how to get Tasker to launch MediaMonkey to play a specific playlist?

[Dan Muller]

The simplest way to launch a playlist--if your media player supports it--is to use the Shortcut action. When configuring the command, tap the magnifying glass and select the playlist shortcut for your media app. Some media players don't have shortcuts and some have shortcuts that are incompatible with the Tasker action. Unfortunately for you, Media Monkey has incompatible shortcuts, so you have to do it the hard way.

The more complex way requires AutoInput. You can use Tasker to launch Media Monkey, then use AutoInput to navigate to and launch the playlist. Below is an example of how I did this with Samsung Music Player, which doesn't have shortcuts.

 Task: Samsung Vocal
   
    <Force screen to portrait orientation>
    A1: Force Rotation [
         Mode: Portrait ]
   
    <Open the music player>
    A2: Launch App [
         Package/App Name: Samsung Music
         Always Start New Copy: On ]             <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Critical: This must be ON so AutoInput will be starting in the same place each time
   
    <Give it time to open>
    A3: Wait [
         MS: 0
         Seconds: 1
         Minutes: 0
         Hours: 0
         Days: 0 ]
   
    <Select the playlist>
    A4: AutoInput Action [
         Configuration: Type: Text
         Value: Boson                                   <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< This is the name of the playlist
         Action : Click
         Timeout (Seconds): 23
         Structure Output (JSON, etc): On ]
   
    <Tap the shuffle button>
    A5: AutoInput Action [
         Configuration: Type: Id
         Value: com.sec.android.app.music:id/icon_shuffle
         Action : Click
         Timeout (Seconds): 23
         Structure Output (JSON, etc): On ]
   
    <Return to the icon screen>          <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Omit this step if you want to stay in the player; I want to go back to the launcher
    A6: Go Home [
         Page: 0 ]
   
    <Allow screen to rotate normally>
    A7: Force Rotation [
         Mode: Off ]  

[Rudd Milam]

Thanks for the feedback. I had been using the Launch Shortcut funtion for a long time. But they stopped working.  I have tried it with other things and it works, I guess MM must have updated and no longer works. It sucks to have things working so smoothly and have updates mess them up.

I have Autoinput and will try that.

[Dan Muller]

I just saw your other thread on this. There's a note in the edit screen for the Shortcut action that indicates that it doesn't support shortcuts that only work on the default launcher. That seems to be what MM does. That must be the change the MM folks made that broke it. You can still launch Rocket Player playlists via shortcut, so the Tasker action definitely works.

BTW, if you try AutoInput and you have several playlists so that you have to scroll down to find the one you want, there are a couple of approaches I tried, but Scroll Forward looking for text seems to work the best.

[Rudd Milam]

If I use AutoInput, I will point to actual shortcuts. Tasker doesn't take you to a shortcut, but goes into MM and shows the playlist there. These are not shortcuts as I understand them.