--[[ This script automatically saves the current playlist and can reload it if the player is started in idle mode (specifically if there are 0 files in the playlist), or if the correct command is sent via script-messages. It remembers the playlist position the player was in when shutdown and reloads the playlist at that entry. This can be disabled with script-opts The script saves a text file containing the previous session playlist in the watch_later directory (changeable via opts) This file is saved in plaintext with the exact file paths of each playlist entry. Note that since it uses the same file, only the latest mpv window to be closed will be saved The script attempts to correct relative playlist paths using the utils.join_path function. I've tried to automatically detect when any non-files are loaded (if it has the sequence :// in the path), so that it'll work with URLs You can disable the automatic stuff and use script messages to load/save playlists as well script-message save-session [session-file] script-message reload-session [session-file] [load_playlist] If not included `session-file` will use the default file specified in script-opts. `load_playlist` controls whether the whole playlist should be restored or just the one file, the value can be `yes` or `no`. If not included it defaults to the value of the `load_playlist` script opt. available at: https://github.com/CogentRedTester/mpv-scripts ]]-- local mp = require 'mp' local utils = require 'mp.utils' local opt = require 'mp.options' local msg = require 'mp.msg' local o = { --automatically save the prev session auto_save = true, --runs the script automatically when started in idle mode and no files are in the playlist auto_load = true, --reloads the full playlist from the previous session --can be individually overwritten when sending script-messages load_playlist = true, --file path of the default session file --save it as a .pls file to be able to open directly (though it will not maintain the playlist positions) session_file = "", --maintain position in the playlist --does nothing if load_playlist is disabled maintain_pos = true, } opt.read_options(o, 'keep_session', function() end) --sets the default session file to the watch_later directory or ~~/watch_later/ if o.session_file == "" then local watch_later = mp.get_property('watch-later-directory', "") if watch_later == "" then watch_later = "~~state/watch_later/" end if not watch_later:find("[/\\]$") then watch_later = watch_later..'/' end o.session_file = watch_later.."prev-session" end local save_file = mp.command_native({"expand-path", o.session_file}) --saves the current playlist as a json string local function save_playlist(file) if not file then file = save_file end msg.verbose('saving current session to', file) local playlist = mp.get_property_native('playlist') if #playlist == 0 then msg.verbose('session empty, aborting save') return end local session = io.open(file, 'w') if not session then return msg.error("Failed to write to file", file) end session:write("[playlist]\n") session:write(mp.get_property('playlist-pos') .. "\n") local working_directory = mp.get_property('working-directory') for _, v in ipairs(playlist) do msg.debug('adding ' .. v.filename .. ' to playlist') --if the file is available then it attempts to expand the path in-case of relative playlists --presumably if the file contains a protocol then it shouldn't be expanded if not v.filename:find("^%a*://") then v.filename = utils.join_path(working_directory, v.filename) msg.debug('expanded path: ' .. v.filename) end session:write("File=" .. v.filename .. "\n") end session:close() end --turns the previous json string into a table and adds all the files to the playlist local function load_prev_session(file, load_playlist) if not file or file == '' then file = save_file end if load_playlist == 'yes' then load_playlist = true elseif load_playlist == 'no' then load_playlist = false else load_playlist = o.load_playlist end --loads the previous session file msg.verbose('loading previous session from', file) local session = io.open(file, "r+") --this should only occur when loading the script for the first time, --or if someone manually deletes the previous session file if session == nil or session:read() ~= "[playlist]" then msg.verbose('no previous session, cancelling load') if session then session:close() end return end local previous_playlist_pos = session:read('*n') if load_playlist then msg.debug('reloading playlist') if not o.maintain_pos then mp.commandv('loadlist', file) else local prev_playlist_start = mp.get_property('playlist-start') msg.verbose("restoring playlist position", previous_playlist_pos) mp.set_property_number('playlist-start', previous_playlist_pos) mp.commandv('loadlist', file) -- restore the original value unless the `playlist-start` property has been otherwise modified if mp.get_property_number('playlist-start') ~= previous_playlist_pos then mp.set_property('playlist-start', prev_playlist_start) end end else msg.debug('discarding playlist') local files = {} for line in session:lines() do table.insert(files, string.match(line, 'File=(.+)')) end -- mpv and keep-session uses 0 based array indices, but lua uses 1-based mp.commandv('loadfile', files[previous_playlist_pos+1]) end session:close() end local function shutdown() if o.auto_save then save_playlist() end end mp.register_script_message('save-session', save_playlist) mp.register_script_message('reload-session', load_prev_session) mp.register_event('shutdown', shutdown) --Load the previous session if auto_load is enabled and the playlist is empty --the function is not called until the first property observation is triggered to let everything initialise --otherwise modifying playlist-start becomes unreliable if o.auto_load and (mp.get_property_number('playlist-count', 0) == 0) then local function temp() load_prev_session() mp.unobserve_property(temp) end mp.observe_property("idle", "string", temp) end