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Title: Goofy Playing Now behavior - start on track 8?
Post by: whoeveryouare on May 06, 2003, 08:02:30 am

I have shuffle disabled, and I am running Media Center Registered 9.0.169.  I generally play albums by double clicking on the album name under Audio > Artist/Album.  This clears Playing Now, and adds just that album to be played, which begins playing on track 1.  Or at least that's what I think should happen.

There is one 13-track album I have which starts on track 8 whenever I double click it and add it to Playing Now.  Every other album I've "tested" begins (correctly) on track 1.

The entire album in question is named and tagged correctly.  I am at a loss.  I feel stupid asking, but why would this ONE album always begin on track 8?

(http://home.rochester.rr.com/bootitng/bte.png)

Title: Re: Goofy Playing Now behavior - start on track 8?
Post by: Deivit on May 07, 2003, 12:41:31 am

No idea at all.

I suppose that you have already checked that you can manually play the other files from 1 to 7 and therefore the links are not broken. Other than that I also suppose that you have not set any filter that may exclude those tracks 1 to 7 from playing.

What is the seq order that appears on your "playing now" window when you load the album from the view scheme? It's track 8 = Seq. 1 or not?

Title: Re: Goofy Playing Now behavior - start on track 8?
Post by: whoeveryouare on May 07, 2003, 01:31:55 am

Files 1 - 7 are perfectly playable.  No filters at all are in effect.  File 1 is Seq 1, File 8 is Seq 8.  The way it is shown here is the way it initially loads:

(http://home.rochester.rr.com/bootitng/bte2.png)

Just upgraded to build 170, and the problem still exists.

Title: Re: Goofy Playing Now behavior - start on track 8?
Post by: Deivit on May 07, 2003, 01:50:53 am

Funny behaviour  :)

Have you tried to actually activate "suffle", load the album to playing now and see what happens? Does it play track #8? Does it play seq #8? or does it start playing seq #1 which is a random track?

Have you tried to delete the album from the library and re-import it?

Title: Re: Goofy Playing Now behavior - start on track 8?
Post by: Cmagic on May 07, 2003, 02:24:54 am

Hi who,

Could it be that the 'Saved view' sorting of this album is not by track order ? To make sure that no other ordering is set for this album have you checked that the "Sort track # for albums" checkbox is checked in Tools | Options | Tree & View ?

C.

Title: Re: Goofy Playing Now behavior - start on track 8?
Post by: whoeveryouare on May 07, 2003, 03:33:02 am

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Have you tried to delete the album from the library and re-import it?

I just did this, and it worked.  Now, sending the same album to Playing Now results in track 1 starting--rather than track 8.  I am mad at myself for not thinking to try this--thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

We'll probably never know why this was acting so strangely.

Thank you for the replies, Deivit and Cmagic.

Title: Re: Goofy Playing Now behavior - start on track 8?
Post by: Deivit on May 07, 2003, 05:28:47 am

Glad it worked.

... the mistery still remains  :)

Title: Re: Goofy Playing Now behavior - start on track 8?
Post by: whoeveryouare on May 08, 2003, 12:31:59 pm

My guess is that it was some library corruption--perhaps due to all the MC9 crashes I was having (being serious, and not critical).