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[kstuart]

Mysteriously, if:

* I play an album  (so Playing Now consists of just this album)
* Press stop during one of the songs
* Go to Playlists->Smartlists
* Choose one of my Smartlists and click on the Play button (or right-click select Play)
* NOTHING HAPPENS
* If I right-click on the Smartlists and choose "Add to Playing Now" then it plays.

This is with build 108.

I am not sure which build introduced the bug, since it has been a number of builds since I last chose a Smartlist and clicked Play.

[JimH]

I can't duplicate this.  Try rebooting.

[kstuart]

Rebooted and same problem exists.

[marko]

Strange. Went to test this myself for you. The smartlist I chose had a mixture of images and music... Three times I cycled the steps, and three times, music began playback and MC immediately froze while the music continued... I got three of these:

Description:
  A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   AppHangB1
  Application Name:   Media Center 20.exe
  Application Version:   20.0.108.0
  Application Timestamp:   555339f9
  Hang Signature:   8be4
  Hang Type:   134217729
  OS Version:   6.3.9600.2.0.0.256.48
  Locale ID:   2057
  Additional Hang Signature 1:   8be4dd3da2155d5b9335714e1fedf28a
  Additional Hang Signature 2:   18bf
  Additional Hang Signature 3:   18bf5318b0b686578c997f22196bfe82
  Additional Hang Signature 4:   8be4
  Additional Hang Signature 5:   8be4dd3da2155d5b9335714e1fedf28a
  Additional Hang Signature 6:   18bf
  Additional Hang Signature 7:   18bf5318b0b686578c997f22196bfe82

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Must be the images, I thought, or maybe the fact that there are over 8000 items in the playing now list, although the player display never updated to reflect this.
I took the images out. Problem went away.
I put the images back in, problem stayed away.

Maybe there's a bad connection in there somewhere, I don't know. My experience didn't quite match yours in that while MC hung, it did actually start playback, even though it would have stalled after the first track. For now, I can't make it hang again, and I can't duplicate your problem.

I did test though, sorry I don't have anything better to report.

[Matt]

I can't reproduce this either.  The play button starts playing from the smartlist, just like I'd expect.