Streaming tracks

A playlist can contain “streaming” tracks, where the audio is streamed from a URL when the track is played.

This is useful if you want to create dynamic content that changes all the time, like weather updates.

How to create a streaming track

The key difference is in the track object, which needs the following:

• the trackUrl property should be set to the URL that hosts the audio
• the type property should be set to stream
• the format property should be set to the format of the stream, for example mp3 or aac

Here is an example of how to create a streaming playlist:

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export const createStreamingPlaylist = async ({
  title = "Test Streaming Playlist",
  accessToken,
}) => {
  const chapters = [
    {
      key: "01",
      title: title,
      overlayLabel: "1",
      tracks: [
        {
          key: "01",
          type: "stream",
          format: "mp3",
          title: title,
          trackUrl: "https://yoto.dev/audio/autumn-3.mp3",
          display: {
            icon16x16: "yoto:#ZuVmuvnoFiI4el6pBPvq0ofcgQ18HjrCmdPEE7GCnP8",
          },
        },
      ],
      display: {
        icon16x16: "yoto:#ZuVmuvnoFiI4el6pBPvq0ofcgQ18HjrCmdPEE7GCnP8",
      },
    },
  ];

  const content = {
    title: title,
    content: { chapters },
    metadata: { description: "Streaming playlist" },
  };

  const createResponse = await fetch("https://api.yotoplay.com/content", {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: JSON.stringify(content),
  });

  const result = await createResponse.json();

  console.log("Streaming playlist created successfully!");

  return result;
};