Bugzilla – Bug 17511
"Playlists" gone from "Home Menu Customization" in SBS web-UI
Last modified: 2014-01-15 22:53:31 UTC
Se this tread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=653505#post653505 Settings > Player > Menus here it was in previous versions possible to move "playlists" to the home menu. If you did not already had it your home menu it was among the other "Inactive Menu Items"
Created attachment 7449 [details] Screenshot of menu customization screen Screenshot of menu customization screen
Hi Logitech, I'm the author of the thread Mikael refers to below. This has now been confirmed in a second thread titled 'Playlists Menu Item removed?' http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89762 To summarize: the "Playlists" shortcut on the main menu of Squeezebox Classic player seems to be gone as of 7.6.0 and 7.6.1. In the past if you removed "Playlists" from your list of active menu items it would appear on the inactive menu items below and you could re-add if you wished. But now it's gone. The only way to access playlists from a Squeezebox 3 is to browse to Music Library and then scroll through the options until you find Playlists. My system in question is a generic Windows XP SP3 desktop. The other user reported this on a Ubuntu machine. Screenshot attached. Cheers!
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Also having this problem on Mac OS X 10.7.1 running 7.6.1.
I am still experiencing this issue in Logitech Media Server 7.7.
Upgraded to the latest 7.x nightly build and was surprised that this feature is not available. Please make it so asap. Direct access to playlists from the top level menu on all devices is needed.
I recomended a SB Touch for my Dad and he likes it a lot, except PLAYLISTS. He wants to be able to save albums to playlists like 'Cooking', 'Easy Listening', etc. and then play them back by selecting them from the Touch menu. He can save the plalists but cannot acces them. Surely this is a huge feature missing from the device? How can we play the saved playlists without using a PC?
(In reply to comment #7) > I recomended a SB Touch for my Dad and he likes it a lot, except PLAYLISTS. He > wants to be able to save albums to playlists like 'Cooking', 'Easy Listening', > etc. and then play them back by selecting them from the Touch menu. > > He can save the plalists but cannot acces them. Surely this is a huge feature > missing from the device? How can we play the saved playlists without using a > PC? yes of course you are not experiencing this bug which is about not having the playlist menu item where people want it ( on the old players like it used to work ). Instead I suggest you investigate if you have any playlist folder in the settings of the server ( or it won't be able to save any playlist ) If it works playlist will be found in the playlist menu in "my music" If you have experimented with moving it and it seems to have disappeared there is a restore hidden menu items function in the Touch.. A forum tread maybe? Playlists do work, this is a bug about a missing feature that went AWOL in 7.6.1 that used to work on the old players namely that several of the UI customisation options available to old players like the SB3 seems missing ( it is not only the playlist menu )
Actually, it is under "Music Library"
I just want to mention that you can create a playlist menu entry in the home menu with Erland's CustomBrowse plugin. That's what I did after this bug "removed" the original playlist menu item from my home menu. Of course, this is just a workaround since it should be able to put a playlist entry in the home menu without a third party plugin (as it was possible in previous versions of slimserver).
I don't understand how to use the Custom Browse plugin to add Playlists at the TOP level.
Do you know and already use CustomBrowse? With CustomBrowse you can generate custom browse menus. There are a plurality of templates one of which is a template for generating a playlists menu which is identical to the standard playlists menu. If you define such a custom playlists menu this will be included in the "Inactive Menu Items" under Settings > Player > Menus and can from there be added to the home menu.
(In reply to comment #8) > > yes of course you are not experiencing this bug which is about not having the > playlist menu item where people want it ( on the old players like it used to > work ). > > Instead I suggest you investigate if you have any playlist folder in the > settings of the server ( or it won't be able to save any playlist ) > > If it works playlist will be found in the playlist menu in "my music" > > If you have experimented with moving it and it seems to have disappeared there > is a restore hidden menu items function in the Touch.. > > A forum tread maybe? Playlists do work, this is a bug about a missing feature > that went AWOL in 7.6.1 that used to work on the old players namely that > several of the UI customisation options available to old players like the SB3 > seems missing ( it is not only the playlist menu ) Hi Mikael, my apologies - you are correct. It took a reboot of the device to make the playlists appear under 'My Music' menu. I have a Classic squeezebox and that never required rebooting to show changes from the server - so my mistake. thanks, Rob.
Any plans to fix this bug and add 'Playlists' back to the top level menu? I can't for the life me understand why anyone would take this out in the first place. Been waiting for a fix for over a year now!
The bug still exists in the current 7.8 version. Because I also mainly use playlists, I looked at the code and found the probable reason: In the file Slim/Menu/BrowserLibrary.pm the homeMenuText definition for SAVED_PLAYLISTS is missing. If it is added at line 578 and the server is restarted the menu item is available again. There may be other similar entries missing in this file. It would be nice to get this fix included in the next version.
Thank you! An easy fix that works a charm.
And where is this file (BrowserLibrary.pm) in the rpm distro?
It's this one: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/Slim/Menu/BrowseLibrary.pm (sorry for the typo)