Bugzilla – Bug 1456
options for automatic playout on connect
Last modified: 2008-12-15 13:04:56 UTC
would be nice to have a couple of options for this... - start playing on reconnect [yes/no] - start playing what on reconnect [select a playlist/persistent playlist/whatever else you can think of]
As with SlimServer, when players reconnect they should have the same now playing playlist as when they last connected. And I believe the play mode is preserved as well. But I'm not sure what you mean by reconnect. Do you mean the occasional network dropping out and reconnecting? Or do you mean the user connects to another server, then sometime later returns to SN?
well, regardless of the nature of the disconnect, it would be nice to have a feature where people could set their desired playing mode on reconnect...
Having thought about this a little bit, I think the behavior for both slimserver and squeezenetwork should be the same. Shouldn't it? Also, we must assume that from time to time players will disconnect and reconnect shortly afterwards, just because the network goes out. Or because we bring down a SqueezeNetwork server for maintenance, say, and the player automatically connects to another one, or reconnects later. During these automatic reconnects, trying to do something clever like play a given playlist could leads to confusing and annoying behavior. Suppose it happens in the middle of the night, and a player that was off suddenly starts playing music. Or it switches playlists to something much louder than was last played, and the volume is too high. I'm just saying that if we do this, we should distinguish between the automatic reconnects and the manual ones.
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