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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000106 | MMW v4 | Player | public | 2003-02-18 04:55 | 2006-09-06 15:07 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | low | Severity | major | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Summary | 0000106: Problems with Player/Now Playing integration with WinAmp | ||||
| Description | - Although Winamp is currently select as primary player, Songs-DB's playlist seems to still use the internal one. As as result, it can play a song through the playlist/internal and play another song at the same time with winamp if you double-click on another song in the database. - As a result of having playlist still using the internal player but not displaying it because winamp is suppose to be the default player, there are limited control on playlist playback (no seek possible, for instance). Is this mean that the playlist is only useful with the internal player only ? | ||||
| Additional Information | 5/27 pushing to normal (post 1.4 release). | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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The playlist is of low use for WinAmp because not everything can be handled from outside (like changing song order, ...). Currently it doesn't work at all, I will update it, but I also think about completely disabling it for WinAmp, which could be better than to have a very crippled Playing now window. |
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WinAmp support was much improved in build 472. Some things were disabled, the rest should work. |
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I used winamp as the player for a bit and things seemed to work. But then I switched to using the SDB player, and when winamp opened it opened with a playlist that had previously been used (instead of the current 'now playing' list). Then when I clicked 'play now' on one of the songs in the 'now playing' list, winamp started playing the old playlist that was in winamp!! The only way to get winamp to purge it's playlist was to click 'play now' for a song that was in a node other than the 'now playing' node. I hope it's a simple fix, 'cuz the functionality is generally really useful. |
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btw, because of the winamp limitations, could you: -resend the entire 'now playing' list to winamp when changes are made -click 'next' x times to get to the correct song -do the above actions only after the currently playing song has completed, or when the user forces a song switch (play now/next/previous) |
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There are actually two playlists in Songs-DB - one for WinAmp and another for the internal player. If I understand right that was the reason of your problem. When you switch from one player to another, its playlist is used then. One playlist could be used for both, but there are several technical and logical problems, the current solution is better in my opinion. The only thing that could be improved is that currently when you switch the player used and you are in "Now playing" node, its content isn't refresh to correspond to the current player. This would also fix your problem quite well. |
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You're right--after playing with it a bit more it seems that this _is_ a manifestation of a refresh problem--sometimes, the 'Now Playing' node isn't refreshed when the user switches players, causing it to appear as if the 'now playing' list isn't working. Your proposed fix should work. |
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Note, there are still a couple of blatant problems related to winamp integration: -Can't delete tracks from 'Now Playing' -Can't move tracks in 'Now Playing' -Can't see artist/title information for many tracks because it is cut off Source: http://www.songs-db.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=584 |
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More issues at: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9911 |
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Superceded by 2632. |
