Tauri Plugin Music Notification

A Tauri plugin for Android that provides music playback notifications with media controls.

Features

• 🎵 Play music from URLs with media notifications
• 🎮 Full playback controls (play, pause, resume, stop)
• ⏭️ Next/Previous track navigation
• ⏩ Seek to specific positions
• 📊 Get current playback state
• 🔔 Native Android media notification with controls
• 🎨 Lock screen controls support

Installation

Install the plugin using your preferred package manager:

npm run tauri add music-notification-api

Add the plugin to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
music-notification = "0.1.0"

Setup

Rust

Register the plugin in your Tauri app:

fn main() {
    tauri::Builder::default()
        .plugin(tauri_plugin_music_notification::init())
        .run(tauri::generate_context!())
        .expect("error while running tauri application");
}

Permissions

Add the required permissions to your src-tauri/capabilities/default.json:

{
  "permissions": [
    "music-notification:default"
  ]
}

Android

The plugin automatically includes the required Android permissions:

• INTERNET - For streaming audio
• FOREGROUND_SERVICE - For background playback
• FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK - For media playback service
• POST_NOTIFICATIONS - For displaying notifications

Usage

JavaScript/TypeScript

import { play, pause, resume, stop, next, previous, seek, getState } from 'music-notification-api';

// Play music
await play({
  url: "https://example.com/song.mp3",
  title: "Song Title",
  artist: "Artist Name",
  album: "Album Name"
});

// Pause playback
await pause();

// Resume playback
await resume();

// Stop playback
await stop();

// Skip to next track
await next();

// Go to previous track
await previous();

// Seek to position (in milliseconds)
await seek(30000); // Seek to 30 seconds

// Get current playback state
const state = await getState();
console.log(state.isPlaying); // true/false
console.log(state.position);  // Current position in ms
console.log(state.duration);  // Total duration in ms

API Reference

play(options: PlayOptions)

Starts playing music from a URL.

Parameters:

• url (string, required): The URL of the audio file
• title (string, optional): Song title
• artist (string, optional): Artist name
• album (string, optional): Album name

Returns: Promise<{ success: boolean; message?: string }>

pause()

Pauses the current playback.

Returns: Promise<{ success: boolean }>

resume()

Resumes paused playback.

Returns: Promise<{ success: boolean }>

stop()

Stops playback and clears the notification.

Returns: Promise<{ success: boolean }>

next()

Skips to the next track (if available in playlist).

Returns: Promise<{ success: boolean }>

previous()

Goes back to the previous track (if available in playlist).

Returns: Promise<{ success: boolean }>

seek(position: number)

Seeks to a specific position in the current track.

Parameters:

• position (number): Position in milliseconds

Returns: Promise<{ success: boolean }>

getState()

Gets the current playback state.

Returns: Promise<PlaybackState>

interface PlaybackState {
  isPlaying: boolean;
  position: number;  // in milliseconds
  duration: number;  // in milliseconds
}

Platform Support

Currently, this plugin only supports Android. Desktop implementations return placeholder responses.

Example

Check out the example app for a complete implementation.

License

MIT

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.