0011634: Playlist supported format setup - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0011634	MMW v4	Synchronization	public	2013-12-19 19:39	2014-02-13 20:50

Reporter	lowlander	Assigned To
Priority	none	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Product Version	4.1

Summary	0011634: Playlist supported format setup
Description	Trying to setup the Playlist settings for a USB stick in the Device Profile. 1) Playlist format shows greyed out M3U. 2) Select Set Formats and enabled PLA. 3) Playlist format remains greyed out M3U. I'd suspect that it should've changed to PLA as that is not set as Supported Formats (as confirmed in Auto Conversions settings). Even disconnecting and reconnecting the USB stick didn't change this.
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Fixed in build

lowlander 2013-12-19 19:54 developer ~0038871	Upon sync with changed settings the following was seen: - Playlist was synced as M3U instead of PLA - Generate Device Playlists for Artist is checked, non are on device [debug log and device profile on FTP]

lowlander 2013-12-19 19:57 developer ~0038872	Changing Set Formats to other formats than PLA does work and sets Playlist format to the chosen format. So it is only broken for PLA. When multiple formats are chosen including PLA, PLA isn't listed as option.

Ludek 2013-12-19 23:19 developer ~0038891 Last edited: 2013-12-19 23:24	USB stick can't sync PLA, .pla is abstract playlist created only for MTP/WMDM devices, therefore the PLA is missing from the dropdown entirely. As you found the others types like XSPF, ASX, PLS, WAX are presented in the dropdown (when configured in the Supported Formats) and can be properly synced. More details: 0010779

lowlander 2013-12-20 16:49 developer ~0038915	The problem then is that PLA can be selected when setting up Supported Formats. It should be greyed out (+ documentation). The reason I was trying to use PLA was for use in Android device (connect USB stick to Android phone).

Ludek 2013-12-20 16:59 developer ~0038917 Last edited: 2013-12-20 17:00	Yes, it can be added manually by user to the 'Supported Formats' (same as any other format), but PLA cannot be selected in the "Playlist Format" combo as expected, so I don't think there is a confusion. In 'Supported Formats' user can select formats that he knows is supported by particular device, so it can be whatever format.

lowlander 2013-12-21 18:24 developer ~0038943	I don't follow. A user can set PLA as supported, but can't sync Playlists as PLA. This seems unexpected and confusing. If a user is able to select PLA as supported format the user would expect to be able to sync Playlists as PLA.

Ludek 2014-02-13 17:02 developer ~0039581	Resolved as 'no change required', the point of allowing users to manually select PLA as supported was to deal with situation when a device improperly notifies that it doesn't support PLA, but e.g. some applications support it.

lowlander 2014-02-13 20:50 developer ~0039596	I still don't see the logic of allowing to set it as Supported Format, but not allowing to set it as Playlist Sync Format.