Re: Soundbridge: 2 new bugs

Cool.  I can tell you exactly why that's happening.  It's an interaction
with the feature that auto-returns to the Now Playing screen after a delay.
Something isn't getting reset, so this should be easy to fix.

Thanks,
--Mike




> 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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