A watch party built from a whole series or video playlist that remembers
the group's progress and each member's, so someone coming back or joining
late sees the items they missed and can catch up (solo, as a catch-up
watch party, or by marking items watched).
- StaticPartyService + StaticPartyStore: first on-disk state (JSON file
under DATA_DIR, atomic debounced writes, flushed on SIGTERM)
- each session is an ordinary Party linked via party.staticLink; group
position is saved by the 20s sweep and resumed on the next session
- PartyService.completeCurrentItem centralizes "item done" (Emby Played +
static progress); new host-only "itemEnded" socket event covers the
last queued item, which was never marked Played before
- missed = group-completed minus watched in-app minus Emby Played
- /static/:id view, create buttons on series/playlist pages, home section
- Docker volume for /data, spec/static-watch-party.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Queued right after the ffmpeg burn-in work, asked for directly: see
what's inside a playlist, and launch it - pre-queued with the whole
thing, the same "one click, the rest queues itself" shape starting from
an episode already gets for its series.
- server/src/services/CatalogService.ts: VISIBLE_COLLECTION_TYPES gains
'playlists' - Emby's /Views already returns that CollectionType once
the user has any, so it appears in the sidebar through the exact same
code every other library already uses, nothing else needed there. New
getPlaylistItemsRaw/getPlaylistItems (Emby's own /Playlists/{id}/Items,
mirroring getSeriesEpisodes/getAlbumTracks). New exported
splitPlaylistByMediaType: a playlist can mix movies/episodes and songs,
this app's party model can't - decides video vs music from the first
item's type and drops anything that doesn't match (logged when it
does) - pure, unit-tested on its own.
- server/src/index.ts: new GET /api/catalog/playlists/:playlistId/items
route. POST /api/parties gains a sibling early branch for
item.Type === 'Playlist' (a new createPartyFromPlaylist helper,
deliberately NOT merged into the existing single-item path, which
didn't need touching) - builds a video QueueItem[] exactly like the
episode-queue path already does, or seeds MusicQueueService.init +
addTrack per track for a music result, the same mechanism
POST /api/parties/:id/tracks already uses.
- client/src/tiles.ts: one more DRILL_DOWN entry (Playlist -> its own
page) - a playlist was never directly streamable, same as
Series/MusicArtist/MusicAlbum before it.
- client/src/api/embyApi.ts: getPlaylistItems(). No new API for
*launching* one - createParty(playlistId) already does everything,
same as clicking any other item; the server decides what it means.
- client/src/views/playlist/Playlist.{ts,html,css} (new): a playlist's
contents, read-only past the one "Lancer cette playlist" button -
deliberately no per-item start/add the way album tracks or episode
rows get (an Emby item carries no back-reference to "which playlist
contains me" the way an Episode's SeriesId does, so "start from item
N, queue the rest of the playlist" isn't cheaply reconstructable the
same way - not asked for here anyway). The launch button branches on
the created party's mediaType, same check Player.ts's own dispatcher
already makes.
- client/src/app.ts: registers /playlist/:id.
- server/test/catalogService.test.ts: the new methods' target
URL/mapping, plus splitPlaylistByMediaType's own tests (homogeneous
video, homogeneous music, mixed, empty).
- docs/architecture.md, README.md: design + the scope decision (no
per-item actions) spelled out.
Verified: full typecheck+test+build on both projects (62/62 server
tests). The new page driven through the same mocked-fetch + real-bundle
harness used throughout this session, in a real browser: header/meta/
item list render correctly from mocked catalog data (including the
sidebar showing "Playlists" once a mocked library declares that
CollectionType), and clicking "Lancer cette playlist" reaches
POST /api/parties with the right id and correctly routes into the video
player for a video result. Actual playback past that point still needs
a real Emby server - same standing caveat as the rest of this app.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
