Hi,
2013/3/23 Kevin McQuiggin <mcqui...@sfu.ca>:
> I have the following playlist, called "news.pls":
>
> $ cat news.pls
> /home/kevin/radio/content/info/top-of-hour.ogg
> /home/kevin/radio/content/info/news-intro.ogg
> /home/kevin/radio/content/info/news-header-cbc.ogg
> /home/kevin/radio/content/news/cbc-news.ogg
> /home/kevin/radio/content/info/news-header-npr.ogg
> /home/kevin/radio/content/news/npr-news.ogg
> /home/kevin/radio/content/info/weather-intro.ogg
> /home/kevin/radio/content/weather/wx.ogg
> /home/kevin/radio/content/info/back-to-program.ogg
>
> I want to merge the tracks of this playlist and have it play at various times
> using a switch() construct.
>
> If I create a testing source called "zzz" and play the playlist directly,
> like this:
>
> # Test: merge tracks of test.pls:
> zzz = merge_tracks(playlist.safe(reload_mode="watch", mode="normal",
> "~/radio/playlists/news.pls"))
>
> # Simple scheduling for test purposes:
> radio = fallback(track_sensitive=false, [
> zzz,
> security]
> )
>
> there is no problem. In this case, everything works fine, and I hear the
> news.pls loop playing over and over. So, the merge_tracks() seems to have
> worked.
>
> HOWEVER, when I use the same idea/construct to play the merged tracks at a
> particular time, like this:
>
> news = merge_tracks(playlist.safe(reload_mode="watch",
> mode="normal",
> "/home/kevin/radio/playlists/news.pls"))
>
> (...)
>
> # Simple scheduling. Include a test request queue:
> radio = fallback(track_sensitive=false, [
> request.queue(id="request"),
> switch([ ({0m0s}, news),
> ({30m0s}, weather),
> ({17h5m}, scifi),
> ({18h5m}, scifi),
> ({19h5m}, scifi),
> ({20h5m}, scifi),
> ({21h5m}, scifi),
> ({22h5m}, scifi),
> ({23h5m}, scifi)
> ]),
> music,
> security]
> )
>
> THEN, when the {0m0s} predicate triggers, I only hear ONE of the sub-tracks
> of the merged playlist source "news". After the single track (of the nine in
> the "news.pls" playlist) plays, then output passes back to the next playlist,
> "music".
>
> I want to hear the -entire- merged playlist when the {0m0s} time arrives.
>
> I am not sure why this is happening. "news" as a source is defined as a
> merge_tracks() source.
I'm not 100% sure of what's happening indeed. Do you have logs to show
around the time when it switches from the merged source to music? It'd
be nice to have them verbose, like with set("log.level",4)
Thanks!
Romain
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