[API Request] Add songs to playlist at specific index

[Funtimes909]

Type of change

API tweak

Proposal description

I am working on a project to import playlists from various music streaming services, one of the features I wish to implement is the ability to download songs/albums that are missing from the server, import them and add them to the playlist to recreate it 1:1 from the streaming service.

Implementing this functionality would be a lot simpler if my program could do two passes:
first pass: Matches as many songs as it can and creates the playlist as is.
second pass: downloads any missing songs, adds metadata, adds it to the library and adds it to the playlist at index it's at on the source playlist.

I propose to add an optional parameter to the updatePlaylist endpoint to specify at which index to add a song

Backward compatibility impact

No response

Backward compatibility

• No backward compatibility impact.

API details

Parameters:
index - the index at which to add the track

Security impacts

No response

Potential issues

No response

Alternative solutions

A separate endpoint could be made entirely, if the current proposal is deemed too risky, I know that feishin tells me when editing song order in a playlist that it's not recommended to edit large playlists.

[deluan]

Can't you just call createPlaylist with the final version of the playlist? It will override the existing playlist with all the songs you send.