RonM wrote: > Surely there is a difference between "going into the background" when > you have selected a song to listen to and then gone on to do other > things on the mobile, pending the need to select another song, and > "going into the background" when no music is currently being played and > the connected player is just quiescent? The former is not a case of > "nothing to do". Perhaps there could be some logic that left the app > "on" and pointed to the last selected player, until some period of > inactivity on the app had passed. The default for this quiescent period > should be longer than the standard album length. > > I think this would be particularly useful when the mobile is being used > as the player, as in SB Player. If you are listening via the mobile, > you are probably doing something else on it as well, and it's just very > annoying to have to navigate through the menus to get back to SB Player > when the playlist ends. > > I appreciate the battery-saving feature of the current arrangement, and > the fact that you can choose to leave it running in the background, > thereby avoiding the problem, but don't think that this is always the > user-friendly way. > > As to the point of a default player, of course that is a good thing to > have, but using a different player from time to time is the norm, and > not outlier-behavior. > > R. I'm sorry but your logic makes no sense and I think you may also have a misunderstanding about how Squeezebox controllers work. Squeezebox controllers do not make a direct connection with the players, only to the server. All commands are sent to the server which then sends commands to the players. Disabling "Always connected" means that the app disconnects from the server when it goes into the background. When the app is disconnected from the server it literally can do nothing, it cannot know if a player is playing or not. Since it can do nothing, there is no need to keep the app alive.
When the app connects to a server, it will try to connect to the last used player. When you enabled Default Player, you are telling the app to override that behavior and always choose a particular player. To get the behavior you want, just turn off "Default Player", as I mentioned in a previous reply. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk -------------- Squeezebox apps for webOS, Android and Windows Phone, http://www.angrygoatapps.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wt0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18760 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96757 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
