garym wrote: > checked back with my office setup (and also now checked at home and a > 3rd location) and I'm not seeing the problem of repeated short playlist. > I suspect my initial issue was the quickly hitting "next track" button > and not giving the plugin time to add new tracks to the end.
Michael I can't really put my finger on the exact circumstances yet, but I'm now seeing this sort of behaviour too. When I start, for instance, a Classic Rock mix, I get 5 or 6 tracks in the playlist. I have the impression that if I skip to the next track at any point during playback of this playlist then the list doesn't get added to. I think I've also seen one or two cases where this happens even without me skipping tracks, but it's hard to be sure of this as lately I've been skipping more tracks - 'Classic Rock' mixes based on my own library plus Spotify seem to contain more 'metal' tracks than they used to, although my sample size is probably too small to be meaningful. I'm also now seeing a problem that someone else reported earlier - the playlist seems to start playback at the second track. Skipping and deleting tracks in general seems a bit hit and miss, so rather than skipping a track I've tended to start a new mix, and this is when I've noticed the problem of starting on the second track. On a separate point concerning usability, I find the operation of the plugin differs slightly from the conventions of the rest of the LMS experience. When browsing my own library I'm used to having to specifically click on the 'play' or 'add' button to get the tracks into the playlist. As far as I'm aware, the Smartmix plugin is the only case where a LINK in the left window actually starts playback. In all other cases I can think of, clicking an underlined link either drills down further or shows more information. I wonder whether it's feasible to implement the 'play', 'play next', 'add' etc buttons in the left hand panel alongside the mix links, and perhaps remove the direct playback from those mix links, and change the functionality so that clicking a mix link creates a preview of the playlist in the left panel. This is obviously just a personal opinion - maybe it's on your to-do list already, or maybe it's not feasible - just thought I'd raise it. I should probably have waited till I can access my server to check version numbers etc. I'm running a version of the plugin that I updated last night, and it's on a Mac mini (Snow Leopard) running LMS 7.8.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97668 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
