I'm a little confused, or not sure about the different playlist modes, the reload_mode and the like.
Is there any better resources out there - tried the documentation but it doesn't really tell you anything about how *exactly* each mode works and interacts with each other, ie. normal vs random for playlists, watch vs rounds vs seconds, vs or rotate vs random in sequences for instance? Why I'm asking is this - I have playlists using mode=random, reload_mode=watch and in the sequence (the collection of playlists that I switch) is selected by either random or rotate. What's happening is sometimes now I'm getting repeats of the same show, sometimes right next to each other. I've got a delay on each show and promos so they don't immediately repeat and forces a promo or a musical track to play for variety, but I see from my Last.fm stream that the same show was played right after each other. I know with random this is always a risk, but there is a large pool of shows (100s) and it's strange for the same shows to be popping up recently, as well as has been happening from day to day…deja vu is setting in. It 's since I switched to reload_moad=watch, because the directories aren't updated that often - which was on 3600 seconds, which makes me suspect that each reload 'shuffled' the playlist regularly and thus made it more random? Also noticed when the sequence is on rotate, when the switch occurs it quite often doesn't play the first item, a promo, or drops in halfway through the sequence - for example each sequence goes mypromos, ashow, musicaltrack…. rinse, repeat (hopefully) - but found sometimes it plays just the show skipping the promo, or a load of musical tracks first, then the show (not always giving time for the show, hence why I use rotate and have the show first). It's obvious to me that rotate doesn't always rotate in sequence, it's not really that different from random (which I understood should randomly pick one of the playlists to play from, taking the weighting into account). Or doesn't restart from the start of the sequence, I'm guessing it picks up from where it stopped last time? It's weird cos it DID do this when I started, which makes me wonder if my modes, or delay on promos or shows (usually set to 1.) is at fault somewhere. Or is this a bug in 1.1.1.? Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Savonet-users mailing list Savonet-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users
