(Long Message which I have been adding to over the last few days Alert!) Hmmm, I upgraded to the latest release in the hope that the tracks being cut-off issue would be resolved but it seems to have brought its own set of issues.
Slimserver is running 24/7 on WinXP. I have three Squeezeboxes attached, one each of versions 1,2 & 3. The V2 & V3 are always synchronised and playing 'random songs. I listen to the V1 box when I'm exercising which is playing a shuffled playlist. Squeezebox Display: My two synchronised Squeeezeboxes are displaying the wrong track information. Well, to be more accurate, what's being displayed is the data for the next track. Even more bizarrely, it seems to update Last.Fm with the data for the next track before it has started. I've just been watching it. A track has started, the Squeezebox is displaying the correct track information but the progress bar is full and the countdown timer is showing zero. Partway through the track the display changed to the data for the next track. The progress bar is still full and the countdown timer shows zero. The Slimserver web page shows the correct track but the progress bar is already half complete as the track starts. It's difficult to tell as there is always latency on Last.FM but I'm pretty sure the data for the next track was logged before it started. [Slightly later] I sat watching the Slimserver web page and it changed the data display halfway through the track which was playing to the data for the next one; the current track continued to play until it completed. Pressing the FF button on the remote seems to correct the display issue...until it drifts again. I don't think this makes any difference as I'm seeing the issue om Moose and the Slimserver web page as well but I'm using the scrinfo screen saver. The display on my unsynynchronised V1 works as expected. [Later still] I unsynchronised the 2 boxes for 12 hours or so and they each continued to play 'random songs'. Both displays were showing the correct data every time I checked. I resynchronised them and the diaplay problem described above was back in a very few minutes. Synchronised Play: I haven't had any synchronisation issues since I stopped trying to do it over wireless and went fully wired but since upgrading it's lost synch several times between 2 Squeezeboxes including right now :(. When I was useing wireless and had synchronisation issues it seemed to correct itself for a short while whenever it started a new track. That's not happening. [Later] I upgraded to the nightly from 22nd July (6.5.4 - 12407 ) and that seems to have solved the synchronisation issue; the other issues remain. Random Play: Random play no longer seems to be so random. There are approximately 13.7k tracks in my library and the Squeezebox is always on random play. Prior to upgrading the maximum tracks per artist logged by Last.FM was around 36 with a tendency for the 'most played' artists to be those that were most played; that's what I'd expect. Since the upgrade the number of tracks for my most popular artists for last week is much higher. ~70 and the distribution is not the same. My perception is that if I told the previous version to play random songs when the database was only partly scanned the range of tracks it would pick from would grow as tracks were scanned. My perception with the new version is that is not the case. I've got no evidence to back that up other than a lot of repitition until I tell it to play random songs again when the scan is complete at which point, presumably, it uses the full database; that is behavious I did not observe with the previous version. -- kweller ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kweller's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1940 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37123 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
