ML3 Nightly testing

[Fatman_do]

Many plugins can use a background image for lists so I would think it is possible. Maybe another developer or sub can point you in the right direction.

[mvallevand]

Many plugins can use a background image for lists so I would think it is possible. Maybe another developer or sub can point you in the right direction.

I got it, it was a problem in understand how rendering works in a plugin. Rather than getting further sidetracked on perfecting this, I'm going to get back to stabilizing ML3.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Hmm, I made the changes (see Code below). No sound for both .flac and .ogg files. In the playlist I do get the Title information, but no Artist, Album, or Composer.

Code:

<MvpTranscodeFLAC>false</MvpTranscodeFLAC>
  <MvpTranscodeOGG>false</MvpTranscodeOGG>
  <MvpmcStartupConfig>mkdir /usr/music;mount.cifs //192.168.1.22/USBDISKPro-01 /usr/music -o guest;mvpmc --em-flac --startup emulate --emulate ? &amp;</MvpmcStartupConfig>

It looks like there is a bug in GBPVR processing of FLAC and ogg files in 1.4.7 It is not respecting those options and transcoding them anyway so --em-flac is not going to work

Martin

[pz1]

It looks like there is a bug in GBPVR processing of FLAC and ogg files in 1.4.7 It is not respecting those options and transcoding them anyway so --em-flac is not going to work

Martin

That's a pity. I tested on the built-in Music Library, where the files did not play either as expected. I'll post in the generic forum, so it gets Sub's attention.

[mvallevand]

Here's another of the not quite nightlies.

- greatly reduced full scanning speed,
- enabled Remove Files (from db) from config.exe
- Back key acts as green.

I've also added Fatman_do's Blue and CS skins.

Martin

[psycik]

- greatly reduced full scanning speed,

How did yo umanage that? and is this from internal scanning and not via MLUpdater (although it is the same code in both)

[mvallevand]

Instead of treating each Insert as a complete SQL set of commands, I moved the SQL Connect and CreateCommand outside the scanning loop and call then once, using one Transaction for the entire scan.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Here's the next update, not too much changed while I await feedback, probably we are in a release candidate mode.

- removed some needless rendering that was spamming the logs
- File System watcher would crash PVRx2 if a playlist was modified.
- change positioning logic on the left list, I didn't like it being reset to top
- some improvements when "Always Query" is turned off
- added a weather interface to interfaces.dll. I saw a Sony dash http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadget...ero_lg.jpg and thought that it had a nice screen with time and weather, but I opted to see what ACTCMS can do in MLPanel.

Martin

[pz1]

If I understand correctly the full update of the database from the client does a nuke database, followed by a rebuild. If I do that from the config.exe it is much slower than from the client pop up menu. I doesn't bother me. I report it just for the record.
I have no progress with finding a pattern in the spontaneous reboots of MVP. It seems to occur more often in the playlist view than in other views. From the moments where I watched it happen it seemed to occur at the end or near the end of a track. No solid statistics yet. I also had situations where the random play lasted for almost 3-4 hours. Nice for listening, bad for debugging
Pieter

[mvallevand]

Here's another update

- When Query On is enabled screen updates weren't working as expected.
- When Play Next was used on an empty playlist, two entries were being added

New feature (let me know if you like it)

To avoid ID3v1 truncation, when the Title or Album Name are 30 characters long the filename is checked against the file structure

Album\## Title.ext

If they match the longer name from the file system is used.

@ Pieter Thanks. The nuke then full scan isn't enabled in config.exe yet. Also the full scan in the client is just an update of changes so it will be much faster.

I rarely use playlists so I don't spend much time there I will check. Did you have a chance to see if your Wishlist item to have Band and Composer used when Artis is blank works?

@everyone, speaking of playlists, I am thinking of making Yellow Ctrl-Y on an Album name play Album.m3u if it is found. I know it's not the way the artist intended, but sometimes I just don't like a track or their order. Would this cause a problem?

Martin