Bugzilla – Bug 2739
Save playlists does not update playlists
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:38:10 UTC
I have a playlist created and the playlist is currently playing. I add additional titles to the playlist and they appear in the player pane on the right. I hit 'save' to save the updated playlist. The playlist appears in the left pane. The problem is sometimes the playlist in the left pane is updated and sometimes it is not. Have been unable to determine why or what causes the update to fail or succeed. When the 'save' action doesn't update the playlist it really didn;t happen, not just a display or refresh issue.
Have you tried the latest nightly build of 6.2.2?
Where do I find the nightly build? I installed the 6.2.1 version from the download page.
http://www.slimdevices.com/dev_nightly.html
I am running SlimServer Version: 6.2.2 - 5448 - Linux - EN - iso-8859-1. Saving playlists using the Music Player right hand pane does not work reliably. When I click "SAVE" in "THE CURRENT PLAYLIST: SAVE | DOWNLOAD | CLEAR", it does give me the opportunity to save a playlist in the left hand pane. And these playlists work as long as I don't refresh my library. As soon as I do, these playlists disappear. I have confirmed that the files themselves do not disappear; SlimServer is just blind to them. Here is sample content of a playlist saved in this way (in this case, TSF Jazz): #CURTRACK 0 #EXTM3U #EXTINF:-1,http://217.71.208.36:8000/ http://217.71.208.36:8000/ Appreciate a fix - this is how I save radio stations. Tangentially, when I save a radio station as a favorite - in what folder & file is that saved?
favourites are stored in the prefs file.
right, that's why I want to save as a playlist - so when I load the latest slimserver build, i don't have to recreate my prefs file with favorites. (I've always assumed it's best to not use my old build prefs file in case the new build changes something about the prefs file. Let me know if that's superstitious of me. I'm a geek, not a programmer.)
the developers attempt to handle any important updates/changes to prefs files via update scripts that execute only once when the server is started. you should be able to rely on your prefs staying intact, and still getting any important updates. Of course, backing up is always a good idea.
I think this is related to bug 2803 as a more general issue
merging this with 2803, since that is a superset of this. we can handle the fixes from there.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2803 ***