Bugzilla – Bug 6843
Showing "Nothing" on Now Playing Screen Shows Default Blank Album Icon Over "Now Playing" words
Last modified: 2008-05-15 13:02:41 UTC
With a SB Controller-SB Receiver connected to SqueezeNetwork only, when I press the Home key and the Receiver is not playing anything, the formatting of the Now Playing screen is a little off. The default album cover (the musical note in a square) is overwrites the word "Now" in the window's title. Only the bottom half of the default album cover is shown and the top half looks like it's higher than the top of the screen. Seen on firmware 7.0 r1658 (January 28). Connected to regular SN, and not beta.squeezenetwork.com.
It should just be the word "Nothing" with no icon.
FWIW, this is a skinning issue. fix should be entirely on the jive side, as the data sent by SC in the playerstatus object is correct. Need to make sure that the menu item style is set correctly for all instances of this menu being updated.
fixed in jive r1712 and change 16998 this ended up being far more involved than I thought it would be, but I think the end result here is better. gory details: Have jive (instead of SC) handle the single-item 'NOTHING' and 'OFF' "playlists" delivered when the player has and empty playlist and is off, respectively. Don't use _uses metatable for albumitemNoAction, as it delivers an icon to the skin element that it inexplicably inherits from albumitem, even though it's explicitly left out Add new player notification for playerPlaylistSize that SlimBrowser uses to determine whether to display the 'NOTHING' window or re-show the current playlist Add two new player methods, getPlaylistSize and getPlayerPower Add string for SLIMBROWSER_OFF
Is it not possible to disable Now Playing altogether when the unit is off? It doesn't make any sense to have that menu choice in that case.
I propose a paradigm shift where we stop calling the "Current Playlist" "Now Playing" This bug has nothing to do with the NowPlaying applet, aka the "Now Playing" screen, aka the "Big Artwork" screen. If nothing's playing you won't see NowPlaying. The bug is about the Current Playlist, and I fixed it. back to RESOLVED
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