Bugzilla – Bug 8544
Boom 7.2 branch: playlist links flattened
Last modified: 2008-08-28 17:08:23 UTC
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48543 I'm still seeing this in the 7.2 Boom web interface: Individual links to artist, album & track been lost in the Playlist pane of the interface. There's just one big link to the songinfo page. Also, when artwork is displayed in the Playlist, there's just a titleformat'd single line of information (and one link) instead of the three separate lines of SC 7.0.x. From bug 8333, supposedly change 20439 fixed this in 7.1 Trunk. And I can see from the checkins list that change 20445 merged 20439 into 7.2 Trunk. I'm not running 7.2 Trunk and I also can't tell how close the 7.2 Boom branch and 7.2 Trunk may be, since I don't have access to the checkins being made to the 7.2 Boom branch.
I just installed 7.2 Trunk and it's the same as 7.2 Boom.
Did you change the title format? Please set it to something simple like "TITLE". The three lines are clearly there on my machine. But if you're using a title format which already has ARTIST or ALBUM in it, then that line will not be displayed. 7.2/Boom should be identical, plus the Boom changes. But merges are done semi-automatically, thus there shouldn't be one missing. You can't merge 20000 without merging 19999
(In reply to comment #2) > Did you change the title format? Please set it to something simple like > "TITLE". The three lines are clearly there on my machine. But if you're > using a title format which already has ARTIST or ALBUM in it, then that > line will not be displayed. Ok, that definitely has an effect. I didn't know that the particular title format string affected how the playlist item links are formed. Using just 'TITLE', or even 'DISC-TRACKNUM. TITLE (DURATION)' I see both the individual links (without artwork) and the three lines (when artwork is displayed). Using something like 'DISC-TRACKNUM. TITLE by ARTIST from ALBUM' I see neither. Can't the individual links be maintained no matter the title format? I have no care whether the three line formatting comes and goes, but I would think wrapping the TITLE, ARTIST, ALBUM, and YEAR with links within the formatted string should be possible.
Created attachment 3484 [details] screen capture Also... Is the songinfo page broken? I have no song title and no add or play buttons. See screen cap.
> Ok, that definitely has an effect. I didn't know that the particular title > format string affected how the playlist item links are formed. It does. > Can't the individual links be maintained no matter the title format? The skin only gets one string in this case, thus can't know what the different items should be. (In reply to comment #4) > Also... Is the songinfo page broken? Yes, it is (and fixing it is painful!). Songinfo is undergoing major rework to allow for "context menu" style extensions etc. See bug 6930 et al..
BTW: this is also slightly related to bug 6040 and bug 4956 - changing the format for the player interface will change behaviour in the playlist.
(In reply to comment #5) > The skin only gets one string in this case, thus can't know what the different > items should be. (In reply to comment #4) This is nonsense. If anyone is supposed to understand what this means, you're going to have to do a much better job of explaining it.