Who Remembers Where You Left Off?

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Oct 9, 2026 · 21m

Daniel asked whether playback progress, completion status, and listening history are reusable components or something every media app rebuilds from scratch. The answer sits somewhere uncomfortable: mpv bundles a real resume feature (quit-watch-later, save-position-on-quit, flat watch-later config files), but it's locked inside the player. Media3 and ExoPlayer hand you an event stream, a position, and a maintainer telling you to persist it yourself — in Room, Android's SQLite layer, which knows nothing about audio. GstPlay exposes position, duration, and a message bus, but no resume store, and…