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Title: TiVo HMO and Random Smartlists
Post by: jimpmc on April 11, 2003, 02:05:09 pm

The random smartlists are cool with TiVo, but there seems to be a disconnect between the playlist shown and the one that is actually plays.  It's as if it is re-randomizing when you go from the track list to actually playing it.

Here's an example:
On the TiVo, I choose Auto Smartlists (Music)->Random - one hour->

It brings up a random list of songs.  I can hit play, or click into any track and see details and choose play from there.  But, when I actually hit play, it regenerates a new random list.  I can advance to the next track and previous track through this list while playing and it shows the correct song info, but if I back out it still shows the first list generated.  So, you can't really see the actual playlist that is playing ever except by advancing through the songs while playing them and the playlist track list is not the same as the one that plays.  I'm using .148 MC, but it's been like this for the last few builds.

Hopefully this makes sense! Thanks.

-J

Title: Re: TiVo HMO and Random Smartlists
Post by: JimH on April 11, 2003, 02:12:03 pm

Jim,
What build?  9.0.147 fixed some shuffle problems.  9.0.148 is in the first message here.

Title: Re: TiVo HMO and Random Smartlists
Post by: jimpmc on April 11, 2003, 02:17:52 pm

I edited my post while you replied, but it's happened with the last few builds including .148 now.  It shuffles properly since the fix in .147...this is slightly different in that it's with the random generation of lists.

Title: Re: TiVo HMO and Random Smartlists
Post by: John Gateley on April 11, 2003, 04:16:24 pm

Hi Jimpmc,

I'll check this on monday. It's pretty new code and I expect a few glitches like this...

j

Title: Re: TiVo HMO and Random Smartlists
Post by: dmbfan36 on April 11, 2003, 05:06:52 pm

I can add a little more info to this.... I actually just came on to report this bug.  I've seen it in the last couple builds... it's basically as described but it seems like everytime you goto the playlist view it re-randomizes.  If you start playing a song and come back to the list (by hitting left arrow) it's a new list.. not the first list as stated in the post here...