wt0 wrote: > Not sure if you've noticed, but the items in the pop-up when a song is > playing is different from when it's not playing. That's because when > it's not playing, the pop-up is generated by the app, while it is > generated by the server when it is playing (the option to show a pop-up > when something is already playing was added to LMS either in 7.8 or > 7.9). Basically, when the app sees that the command that will be sent > to the server will generate a pop-up, it will not create it's own. > > This is important because the problem you're encountering used to be a > bug on the server. Apparently, in the initial version of this feature, > when an app requests a list of songs from the server, the server can > only generate that pop-up on the items in that initial request. If the > app then requests more items (to do incremental loading for example), > the server will fail to generate the pop-up for the additional items and > just not respond. I remember I had confirmed this on the controller of > the Squeezebox Duet. If you browse a list of songs with more than 200 > items, the pop-up will not work for the 201st item onward (the initial > request size of the Squeezebox UI is 200 items). > > Originally, Squeeze Ctrl will initially load 48 items and then > incrementally load the rest as you browse. When this problem showed up > it either LMS 7.8 or 7.9, I changed the initial request size to 200 to > minimize the problem. Then when Android 7.0 (Nougat) came around Squeeze > Ctrl started crashing when you switched apps, because an app error that > older versions of Android used to ignore will now crash the app. > Basically, Squeeze Ctrl was trying to save too much to memory when it > went into the background. To fix the crashing, I tried different > methods, one of them being changing the initial load size to 20. > Ultimately, I don't think that made a difference to the crashing, but I > must have forgotten to change it back to 200. > > It seems that they did eventually fix the problem in LMS, but Squeeze > Ctrl needs to be changed to use the fix. I'll do that in the next > update, but in the meantime, if you are using a software player or the > Squeezebox Touch, you can go into the LMS Settings > Player > Basic > Settings and change "Defeat destructive Touch-To-Play" to "do not > defeat". This will let Squeeze Ctrl show it's own pop-up. That setting > doesn't show up for the Boom, Receiver, or the Transporter (not sure > about the Radio).Thanks for the great detail [emoji41]
I do use the SB Touch so I'll check out the workaround you posted as you update Squeeze Ctrl. Thanks again! [emoji3] I want NBC's *-Ed-* on DVD/Blu-ray! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 808htfan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1298 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96757 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
