Bug 14315 – Playlist reverts on server restart when players are synced

Bug 14315 - Playlist reverts on server restart when players are synced

Summary:

Playlist reverts on server restart when players are synced

Status:	REOPENED

Product:	Logitech Media Server
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Sync
Version:	7.4.0
Platform:	PC Windows Home Server

Importance:	P3 normal with 4 votes (vote)
Target Milestone:	Future
Assigned To:	Alan Young

URL:	http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthr...
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Reported:	2009-09-26 08:11 UTC by Sue Chastain
Modified:	2013-09-19 07:29 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Sue Chastain 2009-09-26 08:11:48 UTC

I have several players synced. Every time I update Squeezebox Server for the past several weeks, the current playlist on the synced players reverts to some old version of the playlist after performing an update of my server. The unsynced players keep the playlist just fine.

Version: 7.4.0 - r28647 @ Sat Sep 26 06:02:02 PDT 2009
Hostname: HPSERVER
IP: 192.168.2.14
HTTP Port: 9000
OS: Windows Home Server - EN - cp1252
Platform: 586
Perl Version: 5.10.0 - MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-nt
Total Players Recognized: 7

Comment 1 Alan Young 2009-09-29 04:20:46 UTC

Hmm, that is an artefact of the way players connect. When the first player of a sync-group connects, it will load its previous saved playlist and become the master for the sync-group. But only the master has its playlist saved. Thus, if a different player gets to connect first, the next time SC is restarted, then its saved playlist (from whenever) gets used.

I guess that it would be possible to save the playlist at each change for every player in the sync-group, but that could be quite an overhead.

Comment 2 Chris Owens 2009-10-12 10:00:01 UTC

How annoying is this for you, Sue?  :)

Andy doesn't think that's too much overhead.

Comment 3 Sue Chastain 2009-10-12 18:09:21 UTC

7 on an annoyance scale from 1-10

Comment 4 Chris Owens 2009-10-21 09:49:49 UTC

moving current p2 bugs to p3 to make room for moving p1.5 bugs to p2

Comment 5 Pat Ransil 2009-10-23 05:11:28 UTC

Administrative move of 7.5 bugs. All P2, P3, P4 being downgraded one level. Will then split P1s.

Comment 6 Pat Ransil 2009-10-23 05:17:32 UTC

Administrative move of 7.5 bugs. All P2, P3, P4 being downgraded one level. Will then split P1s.

Comment 7 Chris Owens 2010-03-08 11:17:32 UTC

Moving P3 and lower bugs to next release target

Comment 8 Jim McAtee 2012-05-22 17:00:47 UTC

I find this to be a very annoying bug. I have old playlists popping up for my sync group almost every time I restart the server. It's bizarre.

If you can't control which playlist is going to be loaded when the players connect, then you must save the same playlist for all players in the sync group.

Comment 9 Sue Chastain 2012-05-22 17:40:15 UTC

Reopening as I am not the only one annoyed by this behavior. 
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?95219-Recurring-playlist

Comment 10 Jim McAtee 2013-09-19 07:29:24 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> I guess that it would be possible to save the playlist at each change for
> every player in the sync-group, but that could be quite an overhead.

> Andy doesn't think that's too much overhead.

I would really like to see this fixed. It's not just an annoyance, it's just plain wrong to not keep the saved playlists in sync for every player in the group.