RobbH wrote: > It used to be that I sometimes found that what LMS indicated was Now > Playing was wrong. I can't be sure about the details, but I think it was > as slartibartfast has described it. It hasn't happened lately, and I > think it stopped happening when I switched from a mechanical HDD to > SSD. > > I was thinking that LMS reads ahead and caches the current track as it > plays, so that it may not access the disk where the library is stored > for some time. And it's not accessing the disk while playing online > tracks. My not-very-educated guess was that the library disk would spin > down until LMS attempts to read the next track. At that point, there > would be a delay while the disk spins up before LMS starts receiving any > data, leading LMS to "think" that the play command has failed and it > needs to play the next track instead. With absolutely no knowledge of > the internal workings, that's as far as my imagination can go. > > I do not think I have ever seen LMS play a track that does not appear in > the playlist.LMS always plays the correct track but displays the same artwork > and info for two consecutive tracks causing the artwork to be a track behind the playback from that moment on.
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