"choose player" shows up as the second last item for me.

*** Bug 6676 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Please see 6676 for my comments - the home key takes you to now playing, and there doesn't seem to be anyway to get to the home menu and the choose player option.

Mick: is this still happening for you with the latest firmware?

Ben: Is this familiar to you?

As I mentioned in the forum, I left the Jive in it's cradle. Went out for about 6 hours. Came back, and the menu item had returned.

Now that i think about it, I may have done a New & Changed re-scan as I fixed some tags in my library.

Wonder did the template cache get wiped.

As I mentioned on the thread, having updated jive fw, I now see this option in the player menu 2nd from bottom.

However, I'm now slightly confused about the Jive 'Home' key - which doesn't take you to the Jive menu labelled 'Home' any more!  If the player menu is going to be the new 'Home', maybe the old 'Home' menu needs renaming (to Setup?).  If the 'Choose Player' option is going to stay in the player menu, could I suggest that you call it 'Switch (or Change) Player' as it seems more appropriate here?

Does anyone still have this issue, or can we close this bug?

From the associated thread, http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42489&page=2:-


Quote:
Originally Posted by bklaas
It could be that when the home menu was first put together it only discovered 1, thereby leaving the item off, then more came online and the item didn't get added. Just a guess...

Seems like a good guess, as that's what happens here ...

So unless that's been fixed, it's still a bug.

I reproduced it by starting with one player, choosing it on Jive, and then adding another.  When the second SB/TP was added, the choose player option didn't come up on Jive without a restart.

Bug 6697 may be related.

What I've observed may be relevant.

I have two players, and when I first boot up the Jive handset, it connects to the player it was previously connected to and displays that player's home menu. But the "Choose Player" option is missing.

If you then hold down the Back button for a couple of seconds, it goes to some sort of "basic home menu", which has the three options "Settings", "Extras", and "Choose Player". You can then choose a player, and from that point on, each player's home menu does include the Choose Player option.

The problem with this behaviour is that the only way to get to choose a player is if you know to hold down the Back key for a while, which a lot of casual users probably won't ever figure out.

I've seen this happening in the last few firmwares (including r1605, which is the one I currently run).

Ben: any idea why this could be happening?  I haven't seen this.

Installed r1628 today, and the Choose Player menu item is now shown on the home page after boot-up. So it looks like this is fixed.

Well yes, but it comes and goes depending on how many players you have connected and the order in which they are connected and jive is started up - so unless you've checked all those, I'd be cautious about saying it's fixed.

The other day I had the Choose Player option on the Transporter screen, even though it was the only player connected.  This isn't exactly a disaster, but I'm guessing that it's not intended behaviour.

Today I'm going to investigate my theory that Jive initially sees one player, does not display the Choose Player menu item as a result, then when SlimDiscovery finds more players doesn't add the menu item.

I have yet to see this issue reproduced myself, so that will be the first part of my test--to see if I can reliably reproduce it. If I can do that, I can put in some debug code to examine why the menu item isn't added as > 1 players are detected.

after discussing this at length with Richard, the underlying problem is likely bug #6683.

a workaround/test for that: when you see this condition (Choose Player not there after adding a second player), try going to Settings->Music Source. When you do this you force a scan of players available. Then go back to home and see if Choose Player is there now.

Pat/Mick/Clive, can you try that and report results back?

I have the situation where I have removed all players except a Transporter, but I am still getting 'Choose Player' on the home menu.

Going to Settings->Music Source made no difference.  Then the remote (blue wireless) and transporter both locked up, and rebooting both removed the Choose Player option???

The Log says:-

[08-01-28 18:01:11.0870] Slim::Schema::Track::coverArt (299) Error: Exception when trying to call readCoverArt() for [file:///Music/Vol2/Music6/Various/Mojo%20-%20Chili%20Peppers%20Jukebox/01_Natural%27s%20Not%20In%20It%20by%20Gang%20Of%20Four.flac] : [[/Music/Vol2/Music6/Various/Mojo - Chili Peppers Jukebox/01_Natural's Not In It by Gang Of Four.flac] does not exist or cannot be read: No such file or directory at /usr/share/squeezecenter/lib/Audio/FLAC/Header.pm line 67.
]
[08-01-28 18:01:11.2317] Slim::Networking::Slimproto::client_readable (364) Client sent bad data: S /  / 0 data: ""

"I have the situation where I have removed all players except a Transporter, but
I am still getting 'Choose Player' on the home menu."

that's bug 6683

but the rest, yuck. Your Transporter locked up? :( 
This seems pretty far beyond what's going on with Jive.

Ok, so is the "Choose Player" issue resolved now?  

"that's bug 6683" - Ahh. OK - I thought it must be related.

"but the rest, yuck. Your Transporter locked up? :( 
This seems pretty far beyond what's going on with Jive."

It seems to occur when I'm browsing on Jive though, and I've had it a couple of times now.  I'll open it as a separate bug.

No I still see it.  Just added an SB3 to the single TP and don't get a Choose Player option.

Patrick, how many SqueezeCenters are you running? Just one? How about SqueezeNetwork? Are you connecting to that with either player?

Just one SC7 - on Ubuntu.  And I'm not using SqueezeNetwork at all.

The devices do sometimes get taken out and connected to other people's networks, but not recently.

Ping Ben, any thoughts on this?

I've had no luck reproducing this (I should note, I can reproduce bug 6683, which is at least in some measure associated with this one).

Hate to do it, but I need to punt this to QA for reproducing...

Patrick & Mick: Is this still happening with the latest nightly release?  We've been unable to reproduce here.

Steven: Can I ask you to look at this on our side?

I can't reproduce this at the moment because the home menu always displays the choose player option even though I've only had one player connected for the past couple of days!

If I could get rid of that, I'm sure I could reproduce it very easily.

Please reopen if you see this again.

Hmm, so is having 'choose player' in the menu even with only one player a different bug, not a bug, or youjustcan'tbebotheredanymore'costhecodeneedstobereleased? ;-)

This is easy to replicate

Switch off Jive
Switch off all players but one.
'Forget' all players but the one connected
Switch on Jive
Choose the Player connected on Jive
Switch on another player and wait for it to be connected to SC7
Choose Player option not available in Jive home menu, so cannot be selected.

Please re-open this bug.

Thanks for the details, Patrick.  We'll look at this.

Ping: steven...  Any news here?

I just tried this an I'm not able to reproduce. It could be because there is no more forget this player, Patrick could you try reproducing with a more recent nightly build? Its possible I'm not seeing this bug because I'm not able to forget the player I disconnect. 

Ross, we discussed the forget player option in the bug meeting the other day and determined it should not matter.  Having said that I have not been able to reproduce so far myself.

(In reply to comment #32)
> I just tried this an I'm not able to reproduce. It could be because there is no
> more forget this player, Patrick could you try reproducing with a more recent
> nightly build? Its possible I'm not seeing this bug because I'm not able to
> forget the player I disconnect. 
> 

Never mind this ^. I just reproduced it. I waited another 5 minutes and my player was finally forgotten, then switched Jive on powered on my other player and once it connected the choose player menu was no longer on Jive. 

I'll take a closer look at the player forgetting and file another bug if I can reproduce the long delay before the player is forgotten. 

I'm also going to give another shot at reproducing this over the weekend.

this debug output is the smoking gun. I'm connected to 1 player, "Office SB3". When I add a second player, "Officesbr", I get a playerNew notification, but SlimDiscovery still thinks I have only 1 player. 

104717:1124492 INFO (Player.lua:257) - Player {Officesbr} new for SlimServer {DaddyMac.slimdevices.com}
104717:1124492 INFO (NetworkThread.lua:245) - NOTIFY playerNew: Player {Officesbr}
104717:1124492 WARN (SelectPlayerApplet.lua:131) - SlimDiscovery says that I now have this many players: 1
104717:1124492 WARN (SelectPlayerApplet.lua:132) - This is my currently selected player: Player {Office SB3}

Even after restarting Jive SlimDiscovery returns numberOfPlayers as 1

this is the console sequence on boot... server "DaddyMac" is found, and two playerNew notifications are seen, but SlimDiscovery reports the number of players as 1

110153:537 INFO (SlimServers.lua:82) - Creating server DaddyMac.slimdevices.com (172.19.164.76:9000)
110153:538 INFO (SlimServer.lua:351) - SlimServer {DaddyMac.slimdevices.com}:connect()
110153:538 INFO (NetworkThread.lua:245) - NOTIFY serverNew: SlimServer {DaddyMac.slimdevices.com}
110153:585 INFO (Player.lua:257) - Player {Officesbr} new for SlimServer {DaddyMac.slimdevices.com}
110153:585 INFO (NetworkThread.lua:245) - NOTIFY playerNew: Player {Officesbr}
function: 0x160c12d0
110153:585 WARN (SelectPlayerApplet.lua:131) - SlimDiscovery says that I now have this many players: 0
110153:585 WARN (SelectPlayerApplet.lua:132) - This is my currently selected player: nil
110153:585 INFO (Player.lua:257) - Player {Office SB3} new for SlimServer {DaddyMac.slimdevices.com}
110153:585 INFO (NetworkThread.lua:245) - NOTIFY playerNew: Player {Office SB3}
function: 0x160c12d0
110153:585 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 1
110153:585 WARN (SelectPlayerApplet.lua:131) - SlimDiscovery says that I now have this many players: 1

more interesting output...I just fired up my other SC, and the grand total of connected players should now be 6. SlimDiscovery has the number at 5. So perhaps I just need to find out why our count is always one short.
 
111755:2101 INFO (NetworkThread.lua:245) - NOTIFY playerNew: Player {Squeezebox 2}
function: 0x160c13d0
111755:2101 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 1
111755:2101 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 2
111755:2101 WARN (SelectPlayerApplet.lua:131) - SlimDiscovery says that I now have this many players: 2
111755:2101 WARN (SelectPlayerApplet.lua:132) - This is my currently selected player: Player {Office SB3}
111755:2101 INFO (Player.lua:257) - Player {Living Room} new for SlimServer {mediumspicy}
111755:2101 INFO (NetworkThread.lua:245) - NOTIFY playerNew: Player {Living Room}
function: 0x160c13d0
111755:2102 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 1
111755:2102 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 2
111755:2102 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 3
111755:2102 WARN (SelectPlayerApplet.lua:131) - SlimDiscovery says that I now have this many players: 3
111755:2102 WARN (SelectPlayerApplet.lua:132) - This is my currently selected player: Player {Office SB3}
111755:2102 INFO (Player.lua:257) - Player {Bedroom} new for SlimServer {mediumspicy}
111755:2102 INFO (NetworkThread.lua:245) - NOTIFY playerNew: Player {Bedroom}
function: 0x160c13d0
111755:2102 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 1
111755:2102 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 2
111755:2102 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 3
111755:2102 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 4
111755:2102 WARN (SelectPlayerApplet.lua:131) - SlimDiscovery says that I now have this many players: 4
111755:2102 WARN (SelectPlayerApplet.lua:132) - This is my currently selected player: Player {Office SB3}
111755:2103 INFO (Player.lua:257) - Player {Squeezebox} new for SlimServer {mediumspicy}
111755:2103 INFO (NetworkThread.lua:245) - NOTIFY playerNew: Player {Squeezebox}
function: 0x160c13d0
111755:2103 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 1
111755:2103 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 2
111755:2103 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 3
111755:2103 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 4
111755:2103 WARN (SlimDiscoveryApplet.lua:130) - 5
111755:2103 WARN (SelectPlayerApplet.lua:131) - SlimDiscovery says that I now have this many players: 5

Created attachment 2847 [details]
Patch

Ben, please try the attached patch. It also fixes some stray playerPower notifications too.

fixed in r19381

this was a reproducible problem, and Richard's patch effectively fixes the issue.

sorry, that should have read:

fixed in Jive r1919

This bug has recently been fixed in the latest release of SqueezeCenter 7.0.1

Please try that version, if you still see the error, then reopen this bug.

To download this version, please navigate to: http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html