so, on my laptop, i have it set to show zones from the library server machine, which it is now doing (had to mess about a bit to get them showing), and i can start playback on either of the 2 zones from my laptop. All is good.
I didn't hear any sound on the living room zone, so I had to turn on the receiver and TV obviously, then I could see the audio track was playing on the HTPC, but there was no sound. If the receiver is not on when playback starts, it doesn't start until i stop playback and restart. So I hit stop. another track then started playing automatically. if I hit stop, another track starts playing.
it turns out that the laptop just keeps sending new tracks to play whenever I stop on the "client" machine.
i guess I can understand why this is, but it seems that i should be able to stop all playback from the machine being served to.
When I closed MC on the HTPC (it still leaves the server running), this also served to stop playback on that track, but the next track started playing right away also.
not a huge deal, i don't know how often I'll need this to work, but it seems more like a bug than a feature, so i figured I'd report it.
Just for fun, I figured i'd try stopping with Gizmo, and that worked. i can skip with Gizmo, and both the HTPC and the laptop reflect the currently playing track, and Gizmo can start, skip and stop playback on the HTPC, but i can't actually stop it with the HTPC controls.
again, just reporting "weird" behavior.
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Topic: unable to stop playback on one machine when playback started from another (Read 880 times)