Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Multiple Radio Stations In The Queue - Observations and Unexpected Behaviour

2022-04-04 Thread P Nelson
Redrum wrote: > > > Having said all of that, being an engineer, I don't discount the > possibility that I might be the only one that can see this, and I am > missing something fundamental. Maybe it's age, karma, growing up near > the love canal, my love of beer, wine (*no alcohol was involved

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Multiple Radio Stations In The Queue - Observations and Unexpected Behaviour

2022-04-03 Thread bpa
Redrum wrote: > I'm Not sure I understand this response. Are you referring specifically > to playlists? Because I described in excruciating detail how to cause > disruption by adding to the queue in this thread, in the attached > document. > > If you are referring specifically to playlists, the

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Multiple Radio Stations In The Queue - Observations and Unexpected Behaviour

2022-04-02 Thread P Nelson
Redrum wrote: > > > Having said all of that, being an engineer, I don't discount the > possibility that I might be the only one that can see this, and I am > missing something fundamental. Maybe it's age, karma, growing up near > the love canal, my love of beer, wine (no alcohol was involved i

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Multiple Radio Stations In The Queue - Observations and Unexpected Behaviour

2022-04-02 Thread Redrum
bpa wrote: > If you can describe a method to reproduce your problem on another system > then the problem can be checked. > > If it is just the radio playlist then a copy of the playlist file and > descriptions of actions/symptoms may be all that is necessary to > reproduce. > > Internet radio

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Multiple Radio Stations In The Queue - Observations and Unexpected Behaviour

2022-04-02 Thread bpa
bwaldron wrote: > You're not alone. I have used playlists of radio stations in the past, > and encountered many of the same issues that you have. If you can describe a method to reproduce your problem on another system then the problem can be checked. If it is just the radio playlist then a co

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Multiple Radio Stations In The Queue - Observations and Unexpected Behaviour

2022-04-02 Thread bwaldron
Redrum wrote: > Having said all of that, being an engineer, I don't discount the > possibility that I might be the only one that can see this, and I am > missing something fundamental. You're not alone. I have used playlists of radio stations in the past, and encountered many of the same issues

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Multiple Radio Stations In The Queue - Observations and Unexpected Behaviour

2022-04-01 Thread bpa
Example of being pro-active might provide better answers. Normally the getMetedataFor routine has to return a hash with icon, title etc. Line in red show that in some circumstance it will return "empty" - this may explain the "blank" slots in your queue. Adding additional logging would check if

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Multiple Radio Stations In The Queue - Observations and Unexpected Behaviour

2022-04-01 Thread bpa
Redrum wrote: > Agree, I need to reiterate that these are observations, not meant to > create work, but rather to point out a use case that resulted in > unexpected behavior, maybe something a dev consider a bug. I can't help feeling time might be time might be better spent, learning some Perl e

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Multiple Radio Stations In The Queue - Observations and Unexpected Behaviour

2022-04-01 Thread Redrum
bpa wrote: > > > So a question has to be asked - are these realistic scenarios ? To > resolve the problem may add complexity to the plugin which in practice > will never be used. Agree, I need to reiterate that these are observations, not meant to create work, but rather to point out a use ca

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Multiple Radio Stations In The Queue - Observations and Unexpected Behaviour

2022-04-01 Thread bpa
Redrum wrote: > Radio Stations do not behave like music files in the queue (when there > is more than one), and station types (plugin or standard) don't (miss) > behave The same way. For stations that have/use a protocol handler - the metadata displayed (e.g. image, text) during playing is usua

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] Multiple Radio Stations In The Queue - Observations and Unexpected Behaviour

2022-04-01 Thread Redrum
I was playing around with adding multiple radio stations into the queue, then saving as a playlist. Sort of using the queue as a set of presets. I noticed some odd behavior with the Now Playing (Art, artist, song) info. In the process of testing this/that, I did something to my system which preve