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6233638:
--- Quote from: MrC on April 06, 2013, 11:58:48 am ---You mean, you already have items in the zone's Playing Now, and try to start them from there? What's in a Zone, Stays in a Zone.
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I have an album queued up in the Audio Zone, and videos queued up in the Video Zone. (P.S. is there any way to stop MC from adding every single video in the view to a playlist when I double-click a file, without stopping it from adding the whole album if I double click an audio track?)
If the album is currently playing through the Audio Zone, if I click on the Video Zone and then start playing any of them (by double-clicking) MC tries to play the video, but doesn't stop playing the music, which means the device is in use and video playback stops with the "Playback could not be started on the selected audio output" error. (I use WASAPI Event Style with exclusive access)
Similarly, if I have a video playing in the Video Zone, click on the Audio Zone and then start to play a track I get the same error, because it's not stopping the video playback first.
If I start playback from anywhere else in MC18, switching works as expected. But this is no use to me, because it means I lose the "Playing Now" playlist, which is the whole reason for setting up these multiple zones.
The exception is if I use the Overview "zone", which keeps the "Playing Now" playlist visible and switches between zones correctly - but it displays all my DLNA devices too (which I don't want) and doesn't let you customize the view.
MrC:
ZoneSwitch isn't engaged for files already in the Now Playing list.
6233638:
--- Quote from: MrC on April 06, 2013, 12:16:10 pm ---ZoneSwitch isn't engaged for files already in the Now Playing list.
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Is there a setting for that? Without having it change zones automatically, there doesn't seem to be any point in using them.
MrC:
Files you are adding using some standard method (double-click, Play, etc.) are added to the zone according to ZoneSwitch rules.
It doesn't make sense to yank files out from some zone's current Playing Now list, and move them to some other zone's Playing Now list. How did the files get to the Playing Now list in the first place? You either manually placed them there (so they should stay there), or ZoneSwitch rules placed them there (so they should stay there).
6233638:
--- Quote from: MrC on April 06, 2013, 12:25:28 pm ---Files you are adding using some standard method (double-click, Play, etc.) are added to the zone according to ZoneSwitch rules.
It doesn't make sense to yank files out from some zone's current Playing Now list, and move them to some other zone's Playing Now list. How did the files get to the Playing Now list in the first place? You either manually placed them there (so they should stay there), or ZoneSwitch rules placed them there (so they should stay there).
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Oh, I'm not trying to move files between zones, I'm just trying to go from playing music, which I often leave on in the background, to starting video playback.
For example, I might have some long videos queued up in Video (presentations/talks, rather than films) and stop partway through.
Later on, I might have background music playing through the Audio Zone, and then want to go back to watching the presentations/talks from where I left off.
So I click on the Video Zone at the top (under "Playing Now") and double-click the last file that was playing to resume playback - but it won't play because the background music is still going.
ZoneSwitch only seems to work if I go to the "overview" zone (which I don't like) or was to start a new video from the Video section of the library.
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