also, it'd be nice when playing from a playlist if TRACKNUM were the track
number within the playlist, rather than in the album the song comes from.  That
way, this title format would make more sense:

titleFormat3 = TRACKNUM. ARTIST - TITLE

thanks.

if you want that feature, use fishbone skin and ARTIST-TITLE.  its not likely
the server will ever start obliterating tag information as that woudl be
countered by an equal number demanding that tags should overrule.

It'd be nice if I could get that with the default skin - it should do
the right thing out of the box.

Also, can I get the same behavior on the slimserver display?

the whole point of the skins api is so that an individual user can have it
exactly how they want, without forcing other users to have it the same way, or
have to sift through hundreds of settings.  If you compare status_list.html from
the two skins, you will likely find the changes you need to make.  This is even
easier since you use subversion because you can simply merge updates with your
changes without worrying about installs writing over it.

as to what it should do out of the box, there are a great many that will agrue
an infinite list of contradicting 'should'.  There are a large number of users
who would be greatly upset if slimserver were to override the tagged track
numbers.  I have also recieved wishes to have those numbers removed from
fishbone skin, since that is the one that I maintain.  Unfortunately, it is not
practical to add user prefs for every option.

However, sould you wish to have this considered as a formal request, you should
really file it as a report on its own, since this one specifically refers to
current playlist duration.

KDF, thanks for your thoughts on this.. agreed I'll submit a separate bug if I
decide it's worthwhile.  I have not looked at the skins at all yet, but I'd
imagined them being a way to customize how to display the information rather
than which information to display, so I guess I think of this issue as somewhat
orthogonal.  It seems to me the right solution to this would be to have a new
"macro" variable analogous to "TRACKNUM" which has the semantics I prefer, then
I can choose which data I want displayed via the title format, and how to
display it via a skin.  Skins (as far as I know) also don't address what gets
shown on the slimserver display, but this solution would.  I'll play around a bit..

for the playlist display, the top line always says  Now Playing (x of y) for
numbering of the items in a playlist.  

What's the resolution here?

*** Bug 5794 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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