Ah, that makes more sense. It's not at all obvious that this is what's going on though as it's contrary to how the SqueezeBox always works: Now Playing shows the current playlist; if it's not there, it doesn't get played. I think some ui is needed here to make things more obvious. Maybe a pseudo-entry at the end of the list saying something along the lines of "more coming"?
It does seem as if this plugin is being used as a sticking plaster for the slow shuffle behaviour, though. If shuffling wasn't slow, would the plugin be needed? It seems odd to diverge on the user-interface just to solve a problem with another bit of it. Max mherger Wrote: > > What's all the shouting for about the RandomPlay plugin? > > It's great :-) > > > What does it give me that I didn't have before? > > Quick access to a random selection of songs. Shuffle the whole > collection would often block the server. > > > As far as I can tell, it gives me a > > way of playing ten tracks at random, and that's it. I can't add > > another > > ten tracks until the first ten have finished playing. > > Of course you do! I think this behaviour is configurable. But normally > it will remove a song once it has been played and add another one at > the playlist's end. It therefore will play forever. > > > How is this > > better than the current random functionality? > > It's much faster. > > > A more general issue that's been bugging me for a while is how > > plugins > > are integrated into the main SlimServer distribution and released > > with > > it. Surely, once a feature is deemed good enough to become part of > > the > > core distribution it should cease to be a plugin, or at least its > > plugin nature should be hidden from the user. > > Nope. Plugins add functionality that everybody doesn't need. Disable > it > and gain some free memory, remove complexity and possible source of > problems. I never had any issue with iTunes or MusicMagic integration. > They can be as buggy as they wont to be, I don't (have to) care - > because I don't use those plugins ;-). > > -- > > Michael > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Help translate SlimServer by using the > SlimString Translation Helper (http://www.herger.net/slim/) -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
