Bugzilla – Bug 2653
"play other tracks in album or directory" enable on the fly.
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:12:40 UTC
This is reproduced with a top level music directory of 100 or so assorted tracks, and sub directories with sorted items. With the feature to play all tracks in the same folder enabled, selecting a track some way into the list of tracks adds all files to the playlist as expected, but starts at the wrong track, some way after the desired track. On the feature itself, a global setting to add all tracks from an album is in practice an undesirable feature without a way to override this trivially from the remote when not required. A superior solution would be for the default always to be to add just the selected track, and a remote key sequence, such as a second press on + to add all tracks of the same album, with a third press to add all tracks from the directory.
Sorry Dan, category should be "streaming from slimserver" not to. Nick.
Dean - what do you think of the UI change suggestion?
Let's fix the bug having to do with starting with the wrong songs, then open a new bug with the UI enhancement request. I don't have a solution off the top of my head for that one...
Created attachment 1116 [details] skip anything but songs on a hunch that there is more in the folder than dirs and songs, maybe this simple change will help. Instead of skipping only dirs, and reducing the index to match, this reduces anytime the item isn't a song. I guess this would cover playlist and cue sheets in the same folder. I'm not sure what else could be done, aside from getting rid of the "same folder" part, and only allow same album via browsedb.
I've committed the potential fix to 6.5 at change 6178. Please update svn, or try the Jan 10 builds and reopen if this issue persists.
bug 2980 apparently shows that this fix does not work. I have no idea why, as I can't reproduce the cases. remarking this bug as the enhancement part originally mentioned. The bug part can be handled by bug 2980
kdf - is this still an issue in 6.5? Thanks
functionally no....but to enable/disable on the fly, isn't available in the UI. frankly, I don't see the point. It just ends up being something that many more users will hate because it sticks them with one more click since they have to choose whether or not to override a setting that they have had the option to set already.
I agree - going to close this.
Just for reference on this: There is a way to have this kind of function with the existing setup. Setting the pref to add ONLY the song will add only the song selected, but you still always have the option of pressing play from the level above which will add the entire album or folder and play from the first track (track order for album, alphabetical for folder).