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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0017421 | MMW 5 | Now Playing | public | 2021-01-20 23:22 | 2021-01-29 21:20 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | reopened | ||
| Product Version | 5.0 | ||||
| Target Version | 5.0 | Fixed in Version | 5.0 | ||
| Summary | 0017421: MiniPlayer / MicroPlayer mode is broken by video playback (regression 2296) | ||||
| Description | The miniplayer/microplayer functionality is broken in build 2296 by the attempted fix #15675 Before describing the issue, let's remember the point of these modes: - MiniPlayer: exists so that the user has an always-on portal from which they can see/control their playing media/playlist while they're doing something else. - MicroPlayer: exists so that the user can control their currently playing content even a they're doing something else Let's also remember that in MMW5, Music collections consist of audio files, music videos, and youtube videos. What's broken: 1) Attempts to minimize to miniplayer/microplayer do nothing when a video is playing (for regular video and youtube video). Note that removing the UI to minimize isn't a good solution either as it would be very strange for the functionality to appear/disappear depending on what is playing. 2) Mini/MicroPlayer modes get disabled without user intervention. When playing such music, using the miniplayer/microplayer, MediaMonkey will suddenly switch from these modes to a full MM Window when a video starts playing, and then fail to revert to the selected playback mode. 2b) As a consequence, once these modes are disabled, the user also loses the persistent 'always-on' interface to see their content and control it. See: https://www.screencast.com/t/9KeJsAWUO A much cleaner that doesn't break the functionality would be to revert this regression and: i) In the MiniPlayer: display video within a Window inside the miniplayer, scaled to the width of the player. ii) In the MicroPlayer: don't display video (this is reasonable since the microplayer is really just a set of buttons to control playback when MM is minimized). | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 2302 | ||||
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Based on internal discussion with other devs we've descided to always use main window to video playback. Fixed |
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This is working quite well in 2300. The only issue I noticed was: 1) MM switches from mini-player to MM window by itself if the miniplayer Video is minimized e.g.: 1 Play Video followed by Audio 2 Switch to MiniPlayer while Video is playing, and resize the Video window as small as possible 3 Minimize the Video window 4 Click NEXT --> MiniPlayer switches to regular mode! --> and the MM window is shrunk to the size of the Video window at Step 3! |
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Fixed |
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Verified 2302 I am unable to replicate using 2302 (2301 observe behavior) and steps from 0017421:0061623 |
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Verified 2302. Closing. |
