I'm not trying to be dense here, just understand exactly what is happening and how that is different from what you want to have happen.
So the Touch is playing music, you don't touch it, its still playing and you shut down the server. What does the Touch do? There is a certain amount of buffer in the Touch so it can continue to play music after loosing contact with the server. Does it continue to play music? When it reaches the end of the buffer does it stop playing music (no sound coming out) or does it loop back to the beginning of the buffer and continue playing the music that is in the buffer over and over again? Or is the issue what is on the display? Does the music stop after the buffer is empty, but the display continues to show that something is playing? Do you see the bar that shows the elapsed time of the track continue to progress? Do the numbers that represent the eleapsed time and time to end of track continue to change? If yes what happens when they get to the end of the time for that track? (say the track is three minutes long, you shut the server down 20 seconds into the track, do the numbers continue to change until the music stops? Do they continue to change after the music stops? Do they continue to change past three minutes? ) Now on to what would you LIKE it to do. The system contains a fairly large buffer so it can continue to play music even when it looses contact with the server for short periods of time. If you want the player to stop playing music the second it looses contact with the server you are going to loose the capability to continue to play through short disconnections. If its all right to keep the buffer, its going to keep on playing until the buffer is empty. What do you want it to do then? Go into "stop" mode? Go into "off" mode"? As to why is the Touch different than other players, its because it IS different. In previous players the server was in complete control. Everything that got displayed on the screen came directly from the server, any button that got pressed on the remote went directly to the server. When they loose contact with the server they are essentially dead. The Touch is different. It has its own processor, OS, programs running etc. When it looses contact with the server its still alive, it can display stuff on the screen, respond to screen touches etc. The programs are still running. So instead of just going dead it can be programmed to do anything the programmers want it to do when it looses contact with a server. Obviously its not doing what you want it to do when loosing contact, so your best bet is to carefully spell out exactly what you want to happen when it looses contact (what happens to the music, what happens on the display) then we can see if there is a way in the existing programming to make it do that (or something close). If not you can make an enhancement request and if enough people agree with you that its behavior they desire the developers can make a change to the programing. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83736 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
