erland;607710 Wrote: 
> There is no reason to make this complicated, just make sure to add
> tracks immediately when the current track reaches the last track in the
> playlist.

I agree it doesnt need to be complicated. The correct usage is for 'n'
random songs to be generated ahead at any given point. This allows for
correct use of the UI such as "current playlist". This worked perfectly
on 7.5.x and is broken under certain common use cases for 7.6.

An "add at the last song fix" breaks functionality and also complicates
things by adding additional ways for this event to be triggered. It is a
hack to try and hide that SBS 7.6 didn't generate tracks when it should
have.

Also buffering over wifi. How much data is really going over the
connection to the player when these random songs get generated at the
server? I am fairly sure no data would be sent as I assume the current
playlist screen is only loaded as required on the players. The delay
timer is surely only to divert CPU load on the server to a less time
critical moment to help users with low end machines. It has nothing to
do with network traffic preventing buffering.

This task of generating random songs and possibly other tasks must be
completed within a reasonable amount of time. It is not reasonable to
delay the task indefinitely as it breaks functionality in the real
world.


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