andynormancx;586309 Wrote:
>
> There could then me a menu for retrieving say the last 10 saved running
> playlists. As a developer, but one who admittedly doesn't know the SBS
> code, this seems like a relatively simple bit of work, at least
> compared to a workable party mode or fixing touch-to-play.
>
> This would at least allow you to recover from blowing away the
> playlist, without having to deal with the difficulty of implementing a
> party mode that makes sense on all UIs.
>
I've thought about this too but so far I've hoped that someone else
would try to do it as the party mode isn't critical for myself (too few
parties with people that actually dare to touch my remote controls)
Just saving the last 10 playlists can be pretty easy to handle on the
server side, you just have to figure out which events that change the
playlist. You need to ensure the the playlist is saved before the event
is received because when you receive the event in a plugin the playlist
is already destroyed.
I think the problem is going to be to handle cases where the user
clicks once but this generates multiple playlist events, clicking on an
album and adding track by track to the playlist. For example, some of
the Custom Browse plugin menus works this way. However, I suspect you
can still handle this by only creating a new history position when
commands that clear the playlist is executed, for example a "play"
command. An "add" command doesn't have to create a new history entry,
it can just modify the latest history entry.
The other problem with a history is that it doesn't really solve the
problem, it's just a workaround to get back the playlist after it has
been lost. I think replacing the "play" commands with "add" on the
client side would be a better solution for the user in most cases.
andynormancx;586309 Wrote:
>
> I guess I should dust off my Perl book ;)
>
Please do, I suspect a lot of people would love a plugin like this.
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