Move to last-played item when opening a playlist

[phmarek]

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Feature description

When opening a playlist (eg. one that I added on YT), the last viewed item could be scrolled into view (and get highlighted).

Why do you want this feature?

That would make it easier to select/play the next item.

Additional information

No response

[TobiGr]

I think scrolling to the last option would not be good UX because users might can have different intentions when opening a playlists which they already started to play. I'd prefer a toast snackbar asking to user whether they'd like to continue where they stopped the last time. The problem data wise is that we either need to store an index and/or stream id. The index can change when new streams are added or removed before the saved item. The sole stream id is going to cause problems when one stream is added mulitple times to a playlist. Depending on the implementation we might also want to store the player type.

[phmarek]

Well, perhaps this could be a per-playlist option.

[TobiGr]

I'd prefer a toast asking to user whether they'd like to continue where they stopped the last time. The problem data wise is that we either need to store an index and/or stream id

VLC is showing a snackbar to ask the user if the'd like to continue with the last played item in the queue. The snackbar is disappearing after a few seconds. This is neither intrusive nor adding additional settings, so the complexity for the user is kept low.

[cynicallyconsistent]

Maybe have the playlist start playing at the selected video but still give users the option to scroll to it or not?

[sheldonelectric]

Maybe play the first item which is not "watched"? At the time we left it?