markm9999 wrote: > > Umm, I'm confused. > > To clarify : > > Groups and SyncOptions plugins? > > And > > > This is so the 'SyncOptions plugin' and 'iPeng' don't compete, right? > > If that's the case, are you says each plugin (Groups, SyncOptions, and > others, along with software controllers like iPeng et. al.) all need to > be either run independently OR take each other into account - even > though I'm using one or the other plugin at a given time?
Yes - they are mutually exclusive unless they are programmatically made to co-exist. For example the SyncOptions does "trap" the volume change function of LMS so that, when the volume is changed on any player, then it changes proportionally the volume on all the other players synchronized with it. And you cannot activate it for one player and not the others, seems to. The Group Player creates a "virtual player" and synchronises (creates a sync group) all the real players in the group as soon as you start to play on it. The volume of the virtual player is the average of all the real players. Group Players also trap the LMS volume function (traps are chained) so when you change volume or a virtual players, all real players change proportionally, when you change the volume of one real player, the volume of the virtual player (the average) is recalculated - it only happens when the group is assembled, this dynamic difference is they key of Group Players that I really needed for myself. So you can see that this conflicts with SyncOptions, hence the funny volume catchup. I can't (at least I don't know how yet) take that into account in Group Players, but I can easily, in SyncOptions, disable the volume (and power) handling as soon as a sync group is headed by a virtual player. And SyncOptions is aware of iPeng which handles volume a similar way and avoid doing anything when volume command comes from iPeng Hop this clarifies LMS 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9 - 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB2. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBoxOne, XBMC, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, JRiver 21, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, , Pi B3, B2, Pi B+, 2xPi A+, Odroid-C1, Odroid-C2, Cubie2, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108558 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
