Xion Audio Player

[fixed: 151] album art save state issue v1.5.150 and earlier

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Postby Freerun » January 11th, 2013, 5:22 am

So after using Xion for some time while working on my own update to TECH-A skin
I've noticed this bug with states, i don't know if it have been mentioned or if it is well known issue.

In my opinion that should definitely not happen and probably is easy to fix.

Bug:

When Xion crash because song is moved or sound device gets disconnected/turned off(like my wireless headset) and Xion can't playback, many save states reset

Suggestions and thoughts:

I understand that Xion gives me notification that it can't find file or play because there is no sound device but that's not the reason to reset all svst...
I can understand that Xion resets all settings to default after crash
but it has to be identified correctly because that's not a crash only notification.

There may be a button to reset settings or shortcut with -command that runs Xion in safe mode that reset settings

or a prompt after a crash if I want to reset settings or not

Either way Xion should not reset settings just because song or device was not found...

How bug affects different elements of skin:

My skin for example:
few transvolumers, multiple album arts positions, and button variations icon/text
all switchable with their specific buttons

After crash:

Transvolumer - if svst - will disappear leaving no transvolumers visible even if all layers are visible

Button - if svst - will reset button
(default is text but if switched to icon after crash it goes back to text)
(icon layer is hidden text layer is shown)

Album Art
- if svst - will disappear same as volumer
album art have also something extra to it^^
we can't svst animation for album art to save it's position
this will freeze Album Art and switching songs with different Album Art will no longer affect displayed album art, it was a little disappointing
so i've paused it instead not the best solution but it has to be enough for now

Transparency Sliders - well they have no animation and are not directly svst
only color layers affected by transparency are svst and it seems work without any problems

Volume and Progress Sliders - work perfectly with svst on them and animation svst


hope this will be resolved in future :D
Last edited by Freerun on April 24th, 2013, 8:01 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Postby Cliff Cawley » January 13th, 2013, 10:41 pm

Hi Freerun,

Yes this is a bug if it's not remembering states.

Thanks for reporting, I'll look into fixing in a future release.

Cliff :)
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Postby Freerun » January 28th, 2013, 3:53 am

I've figured it out I think

It's not that Xion does not save states cause it does...

Assuming that transvolumer and album art is svst:
Problem is that when song is stopped transvolumer gets disabled
When song has no album art then albumart is disabled
When we stop that song and restart Xion it will remember that transvolumer and album art was disabled
When we play now a song with album art we won't see it because it was disabled at the end of last session also transvolumer will not appear for the same reason.

i assume that transvolumer and albumart get disabled when "song stop" because when paused those issues never happen


Probably transvolumers and albumarts were never meant to be svst
but it's cool if we can toggle album art positions and different transvolumers

it works for default xion skin that have always left panel hidden and we need to open it each time we start player

but i would like to save as many "presets" as possible so i don't have to set them each time i start Xion

this turned out to be feature request rather than bug

if Xion "at song stop" does not disable transvolumer(it goes transparent anyways cause volume is 0)
and
albumart when song have no art then displays empty(transparent) block

This would make it possible to svst albumart and transvolumer

it came to me so late because TECH-A skin I'm working on don't have stop button so i noticed that issue only when i received error "song was not found"

i dunno if i can release my skin with such issues... but i will prelease it here on forums so someone maybe can help with some workaround^^ i've worked hard on it but can't come up with anything else
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Postby Freerun » April 24th, 2013, 7:59 am

Hi Cliff

So I've made another test skin of the main from 1.5.150 for testing of album art with svst.
This issue was also occurring previously in v127.

If I play song that don't have album art and then I restart player, switching to song with album art will not activate it's album art.

Otherwise it works well if Xion is closed while playing song that have Album Art, then it switches without any problems.

Problem occurs only when Xion is closed with song that don't have album art.

TEST SKIN ALBUM ART made of "main" from 1.5.150

This skin is made the same way as the one I did for testing transvolumers.

Description:

I've added:

- 2 albumart layers (both layers are "not visible" and svst)
- 2 simple layers with "NO ART" image (both layers are "not visible" and svst)
- 1 Animation svst:
{hide art2,no_art2
stop
show art1,no_art1
stop
hide art1,no_art1
show art2,no_art2
stop}
- button that activates animation

Again I hope it's clear and easy to troubleshoot.

~Free
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Postby Cliff Cawley » April 24th, 2013, 9:02 am

Thanks, I've fixed all instances of this, due to the last bug you reported. Doesn't matter what layer it is now, it'll be saved/loaded properly in the next version.

Cliff :)
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