arressen wrote: > Hi there. My sincere apologies for not getting back sooner - I was > expecting to get a notification, but apparently didn't get one. I'll > check why that's not happening. > > I'll do some more playing with streaming to Alexa based on what you've > said and done. However the Favourites problem is more of a concern right > now. > > I use the dynamic playlists approach simply because some of my playlists > are quite large, and therefore take time to load. I've run up against > the time-out limit several times already, although it does at least > start eventually so it's less of an issue. > > However, there is also a limit on the number of tracks that can be > loaded, which means that typically it only ever loads the first subset > of tracks from the list, and I never hear the later tracks. I could > change the number of tracks being loaded, but that also impacts the time > before LMS gets to play the first track, so more timeouts. > > Dynamic playlists eliminates all of that by randomly selecting a small > subset of tracks from the list, and then adding more tracks to the list > as required. Very quick to start playing the first track, keeps the > current playlist small, and consumes fewer resources to keep going > through a long list. > > Our favourites hierarchy is to some extent a legacy issue due to the way > I previously implemented remote controllers on players (long story, > won't bore you with it). I'll reduce it back to a flat list in the next > couple of days and try again. > > Many thanks, > Richard > > > Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Ill take a look at dynamic playlists and see what I can do to handle them. Never used them myself before [emoji41] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016
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