Audio Player Control "Music Skip" and "Music Back" Are Missing

[Leo Staley]

I love, LOVE LOVE your app. "Automate" is so much user friendly than Tasker, more comprehensive than Automagic, AutomateIt, Trigger, all of them, but you're missing a few things.

The commands I'm talking about are NOT the "Next/Previous" commands. 

In Tasker, you have "Music Skip" and "Music Back" which skip the audio track currently playing forward or backwards a number seconds designated by a slider in the task creation. 

These should be available under "Audio Player Control" blocks. Please, Please implement this. 

Thanks. Toodles! 

[Automate developer]

Sound useful, i'll add it to the "to do" list.

I'll investigate, but it would probably require a new "seek" command and a duration input argument added to the Audio player control block.

[burc...@gmail.com]

Another little thing as far as audio control.... Missing "is playing" block to check if player is paused, or playing.. Also retrieve current song info. There are tasker plugins for this but they are very buggy working with automate.

[Automate developer]

Great addition. I'll add it to the "to do" list.

I'll implement it when i update the current Audio player control block to use the newest API for controlling and listening for playback.

[Rob Lund]

I couldn't agree more.  :D  I have clocked in so. many. hours on this wonderful app.  I've blogged about it.  I'm writing flows on both my Android screen and on Bluestacks and sinking between both.

But, yes, great suggestion on the skip/back options. It would be super slick to have that functionality tied to multi-gesture inputs!

[Riku]

I miss this feature too 🤔