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This bug is relatively rarely occuring, i suppose. It's not related to the beta because it's been in the system for quite some time, i just always forget this.

The double up bug means, that if you have two files in your playlist, that have exactly the same title and/or artist, Xion's playlist randomizer will s**t bricks because of it, and in the end, decides to play them in a row.

This is common in OSTs, where similar jingles are named the same.

e.g: Capcom Sound Team - Transmission! ( There are 2 of these in the Rockman.EXE Complete Game Music Collection 1~3, named exactly the same )

logokas Wrote:This bug is relatively rarely occuring, i suppose. It's not related to the beta because it's been in the system for quite some time, i just always forget this.

The double up bug means, that if you have two files in your playlist, that have exactly the same title and/or artist, Xion's playlist randomizer will s**t bricks because of it, and in the end, decides to play them in a row.

This is common in OSTs, where similar jingles are named the same.

e.g: Capcom Sound Team - Transmission! ( There are 2 of these in the Rockman.EXE Complete Game Music Collection 1~3, named exactly the same )

So you have a total of 2 songs in your playlist?

If that's the case, then yes it will play them one after the other. The randomization I use will randomly choose from songs it hasn't played, until its played every song once, then it clears the history and starts again.

If you have say 10 songs and as soon as it randomly plays the first of these, it then immediately plays the next one instead of some other random song, then yes this is a bug.

So which is it?

Cliff

Of course they're not the only ones in the playlist, give me some credit Cliff. I'm not stupid.

The playlist can be of absolutely any size, and whenever one of the files is randomly chosen, the other one plays right after it. This does not occur, to my knowledge, when one of the files is chosen manually.

logokas Wrote:Of course they're not the only ones in the playlist, give me some credit Cliff. I'm not stupid.

The playlist can be of absolutely any size, and whenever one of the files is randomly chosen, the other one plays right after it. This does not occur, to my knowledge, when one of the files is chosen manually.

Heh well the reason I checked is that I tried it here with two different files, both with exactly the same tag information and couldn't reproduce it unless I had 2 files.

Mind you I did test by pressing the next button. Did you do that, or did you just wait for each song to finish?

So that i can reproduce here, how many files did you have in the list?

Cliff

89 files. I think you can do it with just 10 files but i haven't had time to test it. I just know it happens once every hour or so when i play that particular folder with the two files in there.

The title, artist and album name are the same. I could even send you the files because they're pretty tiny. I doubt it'll be necessary though.

logokas Wrote:89 files. I think you can do it with just 10 files but i haven't had time to test it. I just know it happens once every hour or so when i play that particular folder with the two files in there.

The title, artist and album name are the same. I could even send you the files because they're pretty tiny. I doubt it'll be necessary though.

Ok, try culling your list to just 10 and using the next button to see if it still occurs. I can't get it to reproduce here, so if you can still reproduce it might be worthwhile sending me the files.

Another thing to try would be to drag and drop those files while they're in the playlist. I.e. re-order them so that they're not next to each other and see if they still play one after the other.

One other thing to try actually, would be to clear the playlist so that its blank, then add the files back in, having those 2 along with a couple more.

Cliff

Uh, you're missing something, Cliff.

I said the bug cannot be reproduced by self inducing the situation. Clicking next is pretty much self inducing.

I'll trim the list down to ten once i get back from my errands and see if it happens. If it does, i'll send you the files and you can toss them into any 10 file list, and let the playlist play with the randomiser on and leave it untouched until it chooses one of the files by itself.

No worries.

As a test, I created 5 files all with exactly the same tag information and added them to the playlist and was unable to get them to play consecutively.

I then renamed 3 of them to unique names, leaving 2 with the same and tried again.

I still couldn't reproduce

I mean, sometimes it would jump from one to the other, but I kept it going and the next time round it wouldn't.

Cliff

Okay, this is really weird.

I figured 10 files is just too many, so i tossed just one extra song in there, and let the playlist run from the extra song, and waited, while observing the playlist.

What happened was the following: The next file played was one of the 'transmissions'. However, when it went to the next one, it played the first one of the two from cache, and then played the other ontop of it.

The files in question are here:

http://www.fileuploading.net/347086

Just toss them into any playlist of any size and let the randomizer do it's work.

Ok I was able to reproduce where it plays one of the transmissions while it looks like it should be playing another song.

I doubt this has anything to do with the tags, more to do with the length of the song.

I'll look into fixing it, thanks!

Cliff

Ok, I finally fixed this one! As it was such a short audio file it was causing a callback in between me playing/pausing the song at the start.

Anyway, the main thing is that its now fixed for 106

Cliff