Help with directory list

**ws6vert** · 12-05-2008, 01:44 AM

I have a coverflow style flash movie object that I have been working on lately and have begun testing it in my RRskin (Elite Lite). I have created a simple cover_browser.skin that contains the flash object.

For the flash object, when the selected album is clicked, it sends the command:

Code:

fscommand("LIST||SETPATH;"+eo.data.Folder)

Where eo.data.Folder is the path to the selected album.
Ex: C:\\Rock\\Metallica\\Metallica\\

This appears to work perfectly, the audio_browser.skin loads, and the directory list shows the songs within the selected Album. I am able to click the song to play and everything works great. ID3 tags all update correctly, the album's songs all load into the playlist, etc.

The problem Im having is when I close road runner then re-open, the song does not fade in and resume where it left off. The Label for Artist that is on the menu.skin changes 2 or 3 times displaying the track name until it reaches the last track listed in the playlist, which also has not completely loaded correctly. The Artist label is the only Music label that shows information. The audio_player.skin does not show any information other than the track name in the artist label. Road Runner itself takes noticably longer to execute button clicks, which might indicate that it is trying to do something in the background, not sure. Anyways, it stays like this until I select another song to play, whether it is in the same album or a different one. Once a new song is selected and the playlist is updated with that song's album, RR does not run slow, and all labels work fine.

Im 99% sure the problem is being caused by the SETPATH command the flash object is defining for the directory list on the Audio_browser.skin. Is the SETPATH command causing the directory list to conflict with the RR.ini designated path when RR is restarted?

Anyone have any suggestions on how to correct this issue or root cause?

**guino** · 12-05-2008, 01:09 PM

do the following:
-Make a new playlist
-Make sure it's playing all items correctly
-Use your function and load songs (just as you described above)
-Close RR
-Open Winamp.m3u from the WINAMP folder -- see what's listed in there (and post it if you think it's all good).

Chances are something is causing the last playlist in winamp not to be saved correctly.

**ws6vert** · 12-05-2008, 03:46 PM

I'll certainly do that and report back. As far as making a new playlist, do you mean load a new playlist by normally selecting an album in the library and having it populate the playlist? Or physically create a new playlist on the fly and load it in by selecting the Load command on the playlist page?

Originally Posted by guino

do the following:
-Make a new playlist
-Make sure it's playing all items correctly
-Use your function and load songs (just as you described above)
-Close RR
-Open Winamp.m3u from the WINAMP folder -- see what's listed in there (and post it if you think it's all good).

Chances are something is causing the last playlist in winamp not to be saved correctly.

**guino** · 12-05-2008, 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by ws6vert

I'll certainly do that and report back. As far as making a new playlist, do you mean load a new playlist by normally selecting an album in the library and having it populate the playlist? Or physically create a new playlist on the fly and load it in by selecting the Load command on the playlist page?

Make a new playlist=make a playlist that works (independent of how)

**ws6vert** · 12-08-2008, 01:06 AM

After following Guino's instructions, I saw that winamp was saving the current playlist song paths in this format:

Code:

\\Metallica\\Metallica\The Unforgiven.wma

As you can see, my flash object was passing the "\\" through to the playlist when it would save, causing it to screw-up when I would close RR then Open it again.

Solution: I edited the xml that the SWF was reading from to this format:

Code:

C:\My Music\Metallica\Metallica\

and retried everything and it worked perfectly. I guess the "\\" isnt needed when passing string commands from flash to RR. I could of swore I read that it needed \\ somewhere....

Thank you Guino