Bugzilla – Bug 10406
Sync'd playback occurs on powered off players
Last modified: 2009-07-31 10:33:35 UTC
When 2 Booms are synchronised and powered off, starting playback on one also plays the music through the other (powered off) player, despite being set to 'Power off/on separately'. The second player remains powered off and none of the controls are functional until it is powered on manually. I suspect this will affect other players, but is particularly problematic with the Boom given the integrated speakers.
I've seen this on multiple player types with both 7.2 and 7.3. For me it is not easily reproducible.
This is an unintended side-effect of the code to support Pause-at-power-off/Resume-at-power-on when working with sync-groups.
Created attachment 4490 [details] Proposed fix
BTY, to reproduce, the last player in the group to have been powered of must not be the one to which the alarm applies.
Change 24389.
I wasn't able to reproduce this with 7.2.1 or 7.3.3 - 24684. I'm trying to verify it as fixed, but cannot reproduce pre 24389 even using Alan's steps in comment #4.
Ross, I have still seen this with 7.4 nightlies. Unfortunately it is unpredictable and I still can't figure out how to reproduce it.
Alan how consistently could you reproduce it? I tried 4 times and didn't see it.
For me it is probably less than 50% of the time. I haven't had time to really test whether the Power On Resume setting or the contents of the playlist might be a factor.
For me, this always occurred when an alarm was set on one player (Boom) and a favourite (radio station) was chosen as the wake up. With both Booms powered off, when the alarm would activate on one the music would play on both. Since upgrading to 7.3.2 (one of the nightlies) it has not happened again.
You should be able to reproduce it consistently with 7.3. There may have been a similar bug in 7.2 but if so the underlying cause was quite different and I would not know how to reproduce it. The two players in question should not be configured to sync power. They should (both) be configured as Pause-at-power-off/Resume-at-power-on (I think that only the Pause-at-power-off bit is important).
I'm going to close this again as I am confident that the original bug has been fixed. If another bug with similar symptoms can be confirmed then please open a new bug.
Fixed - Closed Message (SC) This bug has been fixed in the 7.3.3 release version of SqueezeCenter! Please download the new version from http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html if you haven't already. If you are still experiencing this problem, feel free to reopen the bug with your new comments and we'll have another look.
I assume you mean 7.3.2?? Or has 7.3.3 been released and not hit the download page yet?
Correction: SqueezeCenter version is 7.3.2
Reduce number of active targets for SC