Troubles when playing radios from playlists

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javaman
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Troubles when playing radios from playlists

Post by javaman » Tue Nov 12, 2019 4:04 am

Hi.
I've collected some streaming radiostations and placed them into playlists.

First bug:
When playing a station from playlist, i push Pause, then after some time Play again, and Neutron plays a few seconds of rest of music from buffer and hangs. No playback, just center button (Play/Pause) jumps to pause and back to play, like it is no internet connection. This problem is not only related to pause function, but also to situation when i'm driving a car and enter to bad gsm signal zone - music stops and not resumes when connection gets back again. I can only choose other station and then return back to previous, then it plays until next break.

But when listening radio from "Streaming" source - it's working fine: when resuming playback - it plays current stream content, just skipping the rest of a buffer.

I've prefer to use playlists (divided by genre), because i have a lot of stations collected, and it's not convenient to keep them all in "Streaming" source list.

Second bug is with "Streaming" source list. When i play a station, then minimize Neutron to background, then change a station via Android Navigation bar buttons (PREV / NEXT) or via media buttons, the station changes correctly. BUT! When i start Neutron UI main activity - it jumps back to the original station, like it remembers it when it was minimized and recalls it back when maximized.

Third thing is a wish about playlists - is it possible to switch to prev / next station when playing from playlist, like in "streaming" source? Now it is not working.

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Re: Troubles when playing radios from playlists

Post by blaubär » Sun Nov 17, 2019 3:19 pm

javaman wrote:
Tue Nov 12, 2019 4:04 am
First bug:
When playing a station from playlist, i push Pause, then after some time Play again, and Neutron plays a few seconds of rest of music from buffer and hangs. No playback, just center button (Play/Pause) jumps to pause and back to play, like it is no internet connection. This problem is not only related to pause function, but also to situation when i'm driving a car and enter to bad gsm signal zone - music stops and not resumes when connection gets back again. I can only choose other station and then return back to previous, then it plays until next break.
I could reproduce that: created a playlist containing a radio stream, let it play via playlist, stopped it, waited for some minutes, restarted it - it showed a new song, played for some seconds, then stopped, play button not responsive. Back to the playlist and restarting from there worked. The same directly from the streaming worked.

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Re: Troubles when playing radios from playlists

Post by blaubär » Sun Nov 17, 2019 4:24 pm

I don't know whether this is related and if it's a bug or a feature, but you can add a stream from icecast and shoutcast to the streaming category

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but you cannot do so from the playlist

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Perhaps the stream isn't fully recognized as a stream once it is in the playlist ?

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Re: Troubles when playing radios from playlists

Post by blaubär » Wed Mar 04, 2020 6:57 am

javaman wrote:
Tue Nov 12, 2019 4:04 am
First bug:
When playing a station from playlist, i push Pause, then after some time Play again, and Neutron plays a few seconds of rest of music from buffer and hangs. No playback, just center button (Play/Pause) jumps to pause and back to play, like it is no internet connection. This problem is not only related to pause function, but also to situation when i'm driving a car and enter to bad gsm signal zone - music stops and not resumes when connection gets back again. I can only choose other station and then return back to previous, then it plays until next break.
Seems to be solved in the new version 2.13.0, I couldn't reproduce the error - could you please check ? When I stop the playlist/stream, wait some time, restart, then it plays for some seconds the buffered and stopped stream, then resumes the stream.
dmitrykos wrote:
Fri Feb 14, 2014 7:22 pm
[...]
* Improved:
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- network stream reloading.
[...]
Fixed:
[...]
- tracks from the playlist could not be matched to tracks of the media library;
[...]

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Re: Troubles when playing radios from playlists

Post by blaubär » Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:38 am

javaman wrote:
Tue Nov 12, 2019 4:04 am
Third thing is a wish about playlists - is it possible to switch to prev / next station when playing from playlist, like in "streaming" source? Now it is not working.
That works for me if I play a playlist/stream and then tap the group switch buttons. It then switches to the previous/next stream. ( But not the precious/next playlist - is that what you want ? It would seem that starting a stream via playlist is just a shortcut to the streaming sources )

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Re: Troubles when playing radios from playlists

Post by javaman » Mon Mar 09, 2020 3:18 am

blaubär wrote:
Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:38 am
That works for me if I play a playlist/stream and then tap the group switch buttons. It then switches to the previous/next stream. ( But not the precious/next playlist - is that what you want ? It would seem that starting a stream via playlist is just a shortcut to the streaming sources )
Yes, you're right, playlists seems to be used just as shortcuts to "Streaming". When playing a station which is added only to playlist, not to streaming list, group buttons are not shown at all. Otherwise, group buttons switch to prev/next station in "streaming" list in alphabetical order. And taping the bottom area with station title in "current playing" screen - leads to display current station in "streaming" list, not the initial playlist.

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Re: Troubles when playing radios from playlists

Post by javaman » Mon Mar 09, 2020 3:21 am

blaubär wrote:
Wed Mar 04, 2020 6:57 am
javaman wrote:
Tue Nov 12, 2019 4:04 am
First bug:
When playing a station from playlist, i push Pause, then after some time Play again, and Neutron plays a few seconds of rest of music from buffer and hangs. No playback, just center button (Play/Pause) jumps to pause and back to play, like it is no internet connection. This problem is not only related to pause function, but also to situation when i'm driving a car and enter to bad gsm signal zone - music stops and not resumes when connection gets back again. I can only choose other station and then return back to previous, then it plays until next break.
Seems to be solved in the new version 2.13.0, I couldn't reproduce the error - could you please check ? When I stop the playlist/stream, wait some time, restart, then it plays for some seconds the buffered and stopped stream, then resumes the stream.
Checked, pause works fine, looks like this bug is fixed.

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