2010-10-15, 06:43 PM
I'm trying hard to move completely to NPVR and eliminate my reliance on GB-PVR - I'm almost there, but ML2 was one of the key functions I depended on, since it enables music playback from the family room via an NMT. I've put NPVR 1.5.33 through its paces, focusing on the Music function, and found a few issues:
Problem: The Play key (Ctrl-P, or Play button on the NMT) now queues tracks to the playlist, instead of replacing the current playlist. But, when it's pressed halfway through a list of tracks, it queues all the tracks from that point on. i.e. if I'm browsing a directory that contains 30 tracks, and I want to queue just the 5th track, pressing Play when the 5th track is highlighted will add tracks 5-30 to the playlist. I can find no way to queue just the single highlighted track.
If you press Play while a directory is highlighted, the entire directory is queued - this makes sense, and would seem to be the right way to queue many files. But there should be a way to queue just one track when you're browsing a list of tracks.
Problem: Pressing Play when the "folder-up" line in a list of tracks is highlighted causes absolutely comical behavior - you've got to try it to believe it. On the NMT it crashes mvpmcx2, but on the PC it causes NPVR to find and play every .WAV file on the PC, in sequence - it took 5 minutes to play all the various WAV file sounds it found. Amusing, but most certainly a bug of some sort...
Problem: There are problems in playing back pre-created playlists. Specifically, if the playlist contains more than one track, it doesn't play back at all. Playlists with a single track work fine. I tried paring playlists back to a single line for each track, with a fully-qualified path name accessible by NPVR, but can't get it to play any playlist with more than one track in it.
Problem: although I realized it probably wouldn't be a good idea to try this, deleting the currently-playing track from the playlist throws an exception "Index was out of range".
Question: this is true of may be more of a general NMT remote question than anything specific to the Music library, but navigating the music library from the NMT is a challenge. There is no page-up or page-down function on the NMT remote. There is fast-forward and rewind, which have no effect - can I map those to page-up and page-down and thereby move through a long list a page at a time? Can I somehow map the red/green/blue/yellow buttons to be able to do this? I've tried some things in keymapping.xml but haven't been able to get it working.
Suggestion: on the subject of navigation, even having page-up and page-down as the only ways of navigating a long list of folders/tracks gets cumbersome. I've got hundreds of music directories. Can the 0-9 keys be mapped to jump around in a list, i.e. the 0 key goes to the top, the 1 key goes 10% of the way through the list, the 9 key goes 90%, etc? That would be an improvement, i think.
Thanks for another great release!
Problem: The Play key (Ctrl-P, or Play button on the NMT) now queues tracks to the playlist, instead of replacing the current playlist. But, when it's pressed halfway through a list of tracks, it queues all the tracks from that point on. i.e. if I'm browsing a directory that contains 30 tracks, and I want to queue just the 5th track, pressing Play when the 5th track is highlighted will add tracks 5-30 to the playlist. I can find no way to queue just the single highlighted track.
If you press Play while a directory is highlighted, the entire directory is queued - this makes sense, and would seem to be the right way to queue many files. But there should be a way to queue just one track when you're browsing a list of tracks.
Problem: Pressing Play when the "folder-up" line in a list of tracks is highlighted causes absolutely comical behavior - you've got to try it to believe it. On the NMT it crashes mvpmcx2, but on the PC it causes NPVR to find and play every .WAV file on the PC, in sequence - it took 5 minutes to play all the various WAV file sounds it found. Amusing, but most certainly a bug of some sort...
Problem: There are problems in playing back pre-created playlists. Specifically, if the playlist contains more than one track, it doesn't play back at all. Playlists with a single track work fine. I tried paring playlists back to a single line for each track, with a fully-qualified path name accessible by NPVR, but can't get it to play any playlist with more than one track in it.
Problem: although I realized it probably wouldn't be a good idea to try this, deleting the currently-playing track from the playlist throws an exception "Index was out of range".
Question: this is true of may be more of a general NMT remote question than anything specific to the Music library, but navigating the music library from the NMT is a challenge. There is no page-up or page-down function on the NMT remote. There is fast-forward and rewind, which have no effect - can I map those to page-up and page-down and thereby move through a long list a page at a time? Can I somehow map the red/green/blue/yellow buttons to be able to do this? I've tried some things in keymapping.xml but haven't been able to get it working.
Suggestion: on the subject of navigation, even having page-up and page-down as the only ways of navigating a long list of folders/tracks gets cumbersome. I've got hundreds of music directories. Can the 0-9 keys be mapped to jump around in a list, i.e. the 0 key goes to the top, the 1 key goes 10% of the way through the list, the 9 key goes 90%, etc? That would be an improvement, i think.
Thanks for another great release!
