chill wrote: > OK, agreed, I guess that's one way to look at it :) But it leaves that > track in the playlist, and there are times when several of the first > five tracks that the Smartmix plugin picks are unplayable. I haven't > got to the bottom of my unreliable playback from Smartmix, except that I > know it's only a problem when I include Spotify in the list of music > sources (I should add that playing from your Spotify plugin directly > always works perfectly). In Smartmix I believe that new tracks are > fetched when there are three tracks left in the playlist - is it > possible that this goes wrong if several tracks are skipped because > they're unplayable? Does the rule for fetching tracks get triggered > only when there are exactly three remaining tracks or would it still get > triggered if the playlist went straight from four remaining tracks to > two because of an unplayable track? > > I realise that it doesn't look like there's a way to avoid fetching > these unplayable tracks, but would it be possible perhaps to check > whether they're playable (before it's their turn to be played) and > either remove them from the playlist, or not add them in the first > place? Is that even possible?
The spotify plugin usually handles this by trying not to put unplayable tracks into the LMS playlist - this is why I needed to update my plugin when Michael released his plugin as I now need to handle the case of unplayable tracks. SmartMix has know way to know they are unplayable, Spotify can't do anything with them until they are played so the expected operation is that when you hit them they are skipped. Other than having extra tracks in the playlist which can't be played, what is the actual problem we are looking to improve? Is it that multiple sequential unplayable tracks cause a problem or just that it the playlist looks odd? Can't really do much about the odd bit unless SmartMix pre validates a track before putting it into the playlist. (Michael you could do this by calling my plugin - but wonder if it is necessary?) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97668 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
