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2012-10-22, 18:50
(This post was last modified: 2012-10-22, 18:51 by Millencolin007.)
The now playing screen is implemented using the notifications retured by xbmc. If the remote was started after the item started to play on xbmc the remote does not get the play event and does not know that something is playing I should actually poll the currently playing song at least once to get the initial status when the now playing screen is displayed but I was too lazy to implement it yet. Other remotes just poll xbmc for the currently playing item every second.
And the playqueue in the now playing is the local one and does not show the queue on xbmc. If you look at the queue on xbmc there will be only one file anyway. The last music pump remote which plays an audio file takes over with its queue
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Loving the changes, thank you!
Couple of fairly minor niggles I get a lot
- when refreshing the music database, it wipes your current playlist. Be really helpful if it preserved this, or a way of saving playlists (even better!)
- When it's playing from the playlist, if it encounters a track that it's unable to locate, it'll stop play. Be helpful if it just skipped and went to the next track (and perhaps mark the track as not existing?)
Like I say, minor - but this update is a fab one!
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Would it be possible to keep a playlist synced between XBMC and Music Pump in the future? What I mean by this is, when I reconnect the player to the server, assuming the playlist changed on XBMC, have the player download the missing songs and delete the songs not present anymore.
I use this app a LOT in offline mode, and while it's really convenient to download new songs to the phone, my internal drive is starting to get full due to "old" songs being kept there ..
Anyway, even without this feature, this app has saved me a lot of time previously wasted by fiddling manually with files, so I'm really thankful anyway. Keep up the great job!
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I thought of such a sync function a while ago but it is not so easy to implement properly and in an intuitive way so I decided to postpone this.
Some problems that crossed my mind:
- The song may be in more than one playlist => it should only be removed if not present in any other playlist
- you may have added manually some songs to that playlist from another media player. Those tracks will be deleted next time you sync with xbmc because they don't exist on the playlist in xbmc.
- Deal with renamed playlists ( a new sync would keep all old files since the renamed playlist would still be on the device and not delete old songs because of this)
- Deal with moved/renamed songs (i.e. move your music from the internal storage to the sdcard) => A new sync would download the whole playlist again.
I will put it on my feature request list but can't promise that a smarter sync function will be implemented
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My Movie and TV Show library keeps disappearing.
Moto x2
ver 0.98.61
XBMC Eden
Win7 x64
This started about a week ago, but I can no longer see my Movies or TV shows in library mode using the app. Prior, my Movies and TV Shows functioned normally. I can still browse my Movies and TV shows if I use the browse files menu on the last screen.
My music library woks fine.
Any suggestions?
I love the app!
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2012-11-13, 09:43
(This post was last modified: 2012-11-13, 09:46 by Millencolin007.)
What do you mean by "library keeps disappearing" ? Does it just show a blank list from time to time or is the list always empty. Does the app crash at that moment?
I have seen a couple of reports in the developer console where the app seems to crash sometimes (probably happens when hitting the back button in the movies / tv shows section)
Since last update was end of octobre and you say that the problem started to happen ~ 1 week ago I don't think your problem is related to that specific update. Without log files it is hard to tell what the problem could be. Since file mode works your xbmc config seems to be ok.
- Have you tried to reinstall the app to see if it that fixes the problem?
- Have you checked if you still have free internal storage?
You can send me the device log to the support address in the playstore so I can take a look at it. Use a tool like LogCollector to extract the log.
Or may be you have added a movie / tvshow with an .nfo file not encoded in utf-8. I have read some time ago that Tolriq had some problems with that in Yatse Widget
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Hi
have tried a few remotes with my raspberry pi this evening and am finding music pump to be very good. What I am struggling with which the description says it does it queue a directory of tracks. I have all of my music on a nas and want my pi to play it through a stereo. So browsing through music sources to a mapped directory I get a series of directories for example ac/dc and under that back in black I don't get any options opening the album directory I get a queue option but selecting that and going back to the play queue I don't see any tracks listed. Is there something I'm missing or is this feature not working.
Thanks again for your efforts!
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The playqueue is locally on the android device and can only be used to queue songs that have been queued using the "Music Section". For that feature to work you have to scan your music shares to the xbmc library which may take a while on a raspberry pi.
Using the music library gives you a lot of advantages
- stream songs to your device
- download music playlists/albums/... to your device
- better queue support
- lockscreen music playback support
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If you play/queue a file from "Movie Library" or "File Mode" the file will be added to the video queue on xbmc which is not currently displayed in Music Pump. This is the reason why your play queue on the phone is empty.
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Ok thanks for the quick response. I'm still fairly new to xbmc so wasn't sure I had it completely setup properly. I'll have a look at getting them into the library.
Thanks again!