garym wrote: 
> you might not realize that the TOUCH can be a player or a controller for
> another player.  So you might have accidentally selected a different
> player for display on the touch. Go to "choose player" in your Touch
> menu (forget where this is, as I've moved this option to my main touch
> menu).  Make sure you've chosen your TOUCH as the player.  I choose a
> different wallpaper on the touch for each of my players that I might
> choose, then I can see at a glance which player I'm controlling with the
> TOUCH.

I am aware of how SB Players work as well as that it is basically the
LMS telling the players what to play etc. But with simply having the
Touch control another player, you don't get the symptoms I described
because it would be another player playing and not the Touch. In my
case, it is the Touch playing what the Touch selected, but the "Now
Playing" screen and the playlist is not updated.


atrocity wrote: 
> I've seen this happen off and on for years:
> 
> 1. The display lags one song behind
> 
> 2. The progress bar doesn't show times or movement
> 
> 3. Playback is no longer gapless (in fact, this is usually what alerts
> me to the fact that it's happening)
> 
> I can usually fix it by attempting to skip forward to the next track,
> which actually restarts the currently playing track and synchronizes the
> display with what's really playing.
> 
> I have usually seen this with long playlists generated by Erland's
> Dynamic Playlists + Custom Skip plugins but generally not when playing
> an album or two, though I remember it happening once when the only thing
> on the playlist was the live 3-CD Crowded House album...and I added that
> album explicitly, not via plugin.
> 
> I'm not sure that I've seen this yet with 7.8 or 7.9, though it was a
> semi-frequent annoyance with 7.7.  I have never seen anything in the log
> indicating a problem, though I didn't look every time.  Frustratingly,
> it tends to happen in the middle of the night or at some other
> inconvenient time.


This is a different problem. The symptoms are different and I am not
using Dynamic Playlists and Custom Skip (have them installed though).
What I'm using most of the time to select my next songs is Spicefly
Sugarcube. However, now that you mention it, it might be the case that
this problem occurred precisely in those situations when I last played a
full album (i.e. Sugarcube had not been active). At least that was the
case this morning. But I'll have to verify that when it happens again.

I am running 7.7.3 and have avoided updating to 7.8. based on the
principle "never change a running system", but maybe it's time to
upgrade? I'm sceptical, though, because I've been on 7.7.3 for a long
time and this has only started happening in recent weeks. I'd actually
like to understand where exactly something is going wrong before going
for the update. If this issue is not known for 7.7.3 it's unlikely (but
not impossible) that it's been fixed in 7.8., so better localize it and
fix it properly.

I'm not familiar with the exact processes involved in playing a song
from the Touch (or more precisely: in updating the "Playing now"
screen). I guess a developer would be able to help localize the exact
spot where something is going wrong (and what might be causing it)...



*Server*: LMS 7.7.3 on a ReadyNAS Ultra 2
*Players*: Radio, Touch, Duet (Receiver & Controller), Boom,
Squeezeplayer on iPad 2
*Remote control apps*: iPeng (iOS), SqueezePad (iOS), Squeezecontroller
(Android)
*Important plugins*: Trackstat, Spicefly Sugarcube, Lazy Search Music,
Switch Player, SmartMix, Custom Browse
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