MediaServer's handling of favorites has been extensively re-written to improve the user-experience with nested hierarchies. The call-out of ordinal numbering while listing favorite names was removed as it adds little value. Folder names are likewise no longer called-out, as they are not in themselves playable audio items.
In the past, MediaServer always retrieved -all- your favorites recursively from LMS before processing anything further. From now on, a fuzzy-match is attempted at each retrieved level and further retrieval stops upon a match. Top-level items therefore play/stream much quicker. To assist with handling very deep nesting levels, the DOT notation now fudges a favorite ID for XMLbrowser after retrieving the base-item ID from the top level of the hierarchy. This makes it possible to play favorites at -any- depth without timeouts, provided you can figure out from looking at the LMS GUI (default skin!) what the numbers between the dots should actually be :cool: It's better than failure! Here's a summary of the 4 ways to play/stream favorites: *[NAME]* 'Play favorite "Jazz FM"' looks for a (fuzzy) match by name. Although all hierarchical levels will be traversed if necessary, an early match now stops unnecessary further recursion. *[NUMBER]* 'Play favorite number 6' / 'Play my sixth favorite' plays a favorite from any hierarchical level, based on its position in the overall flattened hierarchy. Useful if the favorite-name is long/unwieldy or Alexa regularly misunderstands it. *[ITEM]* 'Play favorite: folder "Podcasts", item 4' plays a favorite within a named folder, denoted by the favorite's numbered position within that folder. Useful for targeting e.g. episodes by number when you cannot remember their names. *[DOT]* 'Play favorite 5 dot 1 dot 6' if you have a -lot- of favorites and Alexa always times out before your hierarchy is traversed, this notation can be used as a fallback to successfully play deeply-nested favorites. It does not request the whole hierarchy from LMS, just the base level (for the volatile ID #) and then the favorite itself directly. When it comes to *listing* favorites, there are 3 approaches: 'List my favorites' lists all playable audio favorites at any depth, skipping folder names found along the way. The whole nested favorites-hierarchy is effectively flattened to mention only playable-audio entries. List level 2 favorites' / 'List second level favorites' mentions all favorites at that level of hierarchy, even if in different parent folders along the way. Level is level! 'List favorites in folder "Radio"' list playable entries in that named folder, no matter how deep 'Radio' lies in the overall hierarchy. Enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111016
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