slartibartfast wrote: 
> I know. I was looking under "settings" and didn't realise they only
> appear at the bottom of the menu containing settings when you are
> actually browsing an artist's albums.

Yeah, I know. I did consider adding a menu to the sub-toolbar - but just
looked too noisy. I could leave the items always in the menu, but
disabled when not appropriate. Just not sure. I needed to free up some
space for the sub-toolbar text, and this seemed the most logical way.

slartibartfast wrote: 
> I am more concerned about the 15 to 30 second delay in displaying images
> for Radio Paradise after the last update.

Material uses LMS's cometd for status updates, as do most other
controllers (AFAIK). These status updates have the song's metadata
(artist, title, etc), playback status (state, duration, position), and
the cover URL. Material uses what is called a long-poll HTTP connection.
This connection stays open for 30 seconds. If a playback change happens
in that 30 seconds, cometed is supposed to return the status. If nothing
happens, the latest status is returned. This process is then repeated.

So, it looks like one satus update had the song's meta-data, but not its
correct playback state or cover URL. When the 30 seconds expired, the
status at the end of this had the correct info.

I have seen issues with LMS's cometd not reporting changes quickly
enough. In the developers forum I reported that a queue filled with 2
second tracks can miss updates- but had no replies. I added code to poll
near the start, and end, of a track to work around this.

I have no idea why you seem to be consistently experiencing this. Does
it *always* happen? Does it happen for all RP stations? I must admit I'm
pretty new to RP, and have only used the "Interactive FLAC" stream on
the Main-Mix. Does it happen to you on this stream? Does it a happen
elsewhere (e.g. local playback, Spotty, non-RP streams)?

If you want to see Meterial's cometd interaction, start Material using
-http://SERVER:9000/material/desktop?debug=cometd- and cometed status
updates will be shown in the console tab of your browser's developer
tools. If you do this, do you see a player status update at the time a
song changes, but the display has not updated correctly?


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