Bugzilla – Bug 211
Missing tracks in playlists should give better feedback
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:37:04 UTC
Had a problem todat with our cron'ed playlists. I moved some files around and forgot it would cause a problem with the file paths in the playlists. The symptom was that the player would not play, it would not come out of stop. I feel that for a robust system the software should write an entry to the log for debugging and move on. Unless there are no tracks at all, it should continue to play something. Another neat and helpful thing would be if the layer would flash "Track not found" for a moment. Chris Mason
Created attachment 15 [details] Player message for bad files Here is a possible fix. It displays a short error message and waits 1/4 second before moving to the next song. This is long enough to see there is an error and short enough to hopefully not be annoying if it has to move through several songs before finding one that will open and play.
player skips to next song, and displays a short message that song can't be read. running the server with --d_source will show enough information to know the song isn't found, or otherwise unplayable. --d_playlist might also show the proper logging info for this case.
There are 536 bugs in the database with targets of '---' that were fixed prior to new year 2006. I am setting them to targets of 6.2.1 to keep them from showing up in my queries.