Bugzilla – Bug 8090
No longer possible to add Playlists as a top-level menu item
Last modified: 2012-02-27 17:33:30 UTC
I just upgraded from the previous trunk to 7.1 in the new repo structure (7.1 being the replacement for trunk, as best I can understand--I'm not sure what the new mainline is) and there's no way to put Playlists into the top-level player menu as there has been. Under Settings:Menus, it's missing from both the available Active and Inactive menu items--the list goes [Pandora, Podcasts, Radio IO]. Given playlists are the only way for users to bookmark their Internet broadcast streams (granted, I care because that's 90% of what I listen to), this seems like an unfortunate UI change that's worth reverting to the prior functionality. The server is Debian Linux, unstable.
1) radio streams can also be saved as favourites, then recalled via press-and-hold on a number key. 2) Playlists shows as an inactive menu item for me, default skin on Firefox. Have you tried other skins? Which browser are you using? Have you tried clearing the browser cache?
Created attachment 3363 [details] Firefox screenshot showing no "Playlists" element
Created attachment 3364 [details] Safari screenshot showing no "Playlists" element.
Created attachment 3365 [details] Safari, classic skin, no "Playlists" item
Screenshots attached from OS X 10.4. Updated SqueezeCenter 7.1 to r19915. OS: OS X 10.4 and 10.5 (tested on both) Browsers: Safari/WebKit r33023 and Firefox 2.0.0.14 Cache is clean on both. "Playlists" is also missing from the "Classic" skin, in both the web interface, and the ability to put it into the player's top-level menu. I tend to use Favorites as a subset of Playlists, since Playlists also contain albums in heavy rotation--anyway, it seems reasonable to have both. What OS are you on? This seems like a very strange thing to be OS-dependent, if that's the case; unfortunately I don't have a Windows or Linux desktop handy, but I guess that's the next step.
Created attachment 3366 [details] Safari, with "Playlists" magically appeared.
Oooooookay...I gave 7.1 my previous prefs/ directory via symlink--so with my old library and player setups and everything--and now the "Playlists" item is there. Maybe it doesn't offer you the "Playlists" item if you don't have any playlists? If so, please NAB appropriately, and thanks for checking in.
Steven to see if Playlists works that way.
From Slim:::Buttons::Home::menuOptions: if ($menuOption eq 'SAVED_PLAYLISTS' && !$prefs->get('playlistdir')) { next; } This block of code will prevent the playlists menu option from being shown if there is no playlist folder set in the preferences. I'd say this one is basically ready to be closed.
Thanks KDF! Closing as works for me.
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Closing resolved bugs - if you feel this bug still exists please first re-test with the latest SW/FW version. If you are able to reproduce then feel free to reopen and attach new logs / steps to reproduce.