RE: Soundbridge: 2 new bugs

Great sleuthing, Peter!  I've reproduced the bug now, thanks.  yep, looks
like if you do nothing for 30 seconds with the menu up before you have any
music playing, then you enter the song queue, it will vanish as soon as you
enter it and dump you back at the Now Playing screen.

I'll enter it into our bugbase right away, and hopefully get a fix into our
next release.

Thanks,
-Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Peter Gutbrod
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 12:19 AM
To: Roku Tech Mail List and Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [Roku-tech] Soundbridge: 2 new bugs


Dan,

> I'm unable to reproduce the second bug, however.  Here are my steps:
>
> 1. remove power, re-power
> 2. let SB auto-connect to iTunes server
> 3. Browse by Artist
> 4. Highlight artist name, hit ADD button, songs get added
> 5. select Show Song Queue
>
> and the newly added songs are listed after these steps.  I also tried
adding
> individual songs as well, with the same results.
>
> Are you sure you're selecting Show Song Queue instead of just exiting back
> to the Now Playing screen?  I think it is a bug that the Now Playing
screen
> says "No songs selected" in this case -- it should just say "Playlist
> stopped" or something like that, since you actually *have* selected
songs --
> but the Song Queue appears to work fine for me.
>
> Thanks,
> -Dan

Ok, investigated a little bit more. It is actually 2 bugs working together.

 First, as you've mentioned, the Now Playing screen is wrong, it should say
"Playlist stopped" or something like that. That's the easy one to spot.

Second, I really selected Show Song Queue  in Menu and not Now Playing and
I'm not exiting back to the Now Playing screen. But watching the display
when selecting Show Song Queue I've realized, the songs in the song queue
are displayed for a fraction of a second then the (wrong) Now Playing screen
appears. It's like I would have selected  Now Playing  immediately after
Show Song Queue. Thinking of what can trigger a  Now Playing screen
automatically, I remembered the "Show Now Playing when idle" preference.
This was enabled so far. I disabled it and - the bug vanished. Furthermore I
found, that the "Show Now Playing when idle" doesn't work while the Show
Song Queue bug is active (usually lasts until you start playback or view the
song queue with arrow down).
So, if you view the song queue but do not start playback, the Show Song
Queue bug vanishes, e.g. the songs in the queue are listed properly. But if
you have the "Show Now Playing when idle" preference enabled and wait some
time until the idle trigger should switch to the Now Playing, nothing
happens, instead the so far vanished Show Song Queue bug reappeares.

It looks like the idle counter isn't handled properly, when no playback has
been started. It doesn't trigger the switch to the Now Playing screen with
the one exception, the Show Song Queue screen, where it triggers an
immediately switch to the Now Playing screen not waiting for the idle
timeout at all.

Hope this helps.

Peter


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