Refactor recording api methods and fix logic

Refactored code of recording api setup, teardown, and
endpoint functions.

Added a get_current_state_str() method to Multimedia to make some code
in recording api cleaner.

Fix to recording api logic determining next_id.
Fix to test_server.py teardown to undo patching to media_dict

closes #629
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