Bugzilla – Bug 10825
Suppress "N of M" message when playing Random Mix
Last modified: 2009-10-12 12:32:57 UTC
This implies that there's a playlist when playing random mix, and while you can go in and see what's up next and what's been played, it's more like a Pandora station than a playlist of tracks... Should apply to web, player and controller UIs.
This means we'd have to leak the plugin into the core code. We shouldn't do that.
In principle, from a coding standpoint, yes. There should be some way for a station/mix to notify the NP screen that it should suppress this. We already suppress when it's "1 of 1" so there's a hook in there someplace.
Hu?!? Did we decide to do this? I thought we would not...
Andy notes that this may be hard to fix across both ip3k and SP players. Ben notes that there is a playlist when playing Random mix, and he deletes and adds things to it.
Technically, yes there is a playlist underneath, but the position and length of that playlist are confusing to the user. Hard or no, it's a silly thing to show the user random numbers on the NP screen.