Thread: Possible Bug in music playing after bootup

I'll have to play with this today. I've been locked to the computer doing work stuff, so haven't had much time to mess with the PC in the truck.

I know at one point, my PC did a hard shut down, and it did this. I usually hibernate, and don't have any problems when that worked properly.

This has done it to me a few more times. Is this a known issue?

I have had this issue too. it only happens when SD is shutdown completely. However it does not happen after hibernation. i thought it was a feature of SD to clear playlist after a restart. But am sure am wrong about that

Is this something that is going to be fixed? It is aggravating the crap out of me.

Please send your logs to chuck@mp3car.com

Also look for StreetDeck.wpl in your My documents\StreetDeck path. This file should contain all the files in your playlist on shutdown.

Originally Posted by god_of_cpu

Please send your logs to chuck@mp3car.com

Also look for StreetDeck.wpl in your My documents\StreetDeck path. This file should contain all the files in your playlist on shutdown.

Chuck, can you please explain how SD handles actual playlists and how the StreetDeck.wpl file works? I am attempting to fix this issue myself: Question on Playlist/Queues

Thanks!

I have what sounds like a similar problem...

After power mgmt. events SD will sometimes come back with either only a single song in the playlist, will scroll to the first entry in the playlist regardless of which song I choose in the list (but will not play any song in the playlist), or starts playing and stops shortly thereafter.

What I found is that my 1394 media drive is disappearing during these events and frequently throwing Windows Delayed Write Failed errors. A hot unplug/re-plug of the drive cures this until the next power mgmt. event.

If you're using an external media drive, toggle SD out of fullscreen when this occurs and check for your drive. Also check the System Event Log for delayed write failures etc.

Unless SD is filtering PNP IRPs for removable media devices (which I highly doubt) this is strictly an OS problem in my case. This has been an XP problem for sometime and there are post-SP2 class/port driver updates specifically to address this. Search Google for "XP delayed write failure 1394" or "XP delayed write failure USB".

On media drives it is a good idea to disable write caching (set to Optimize for Quick Removal or something like that) in the drive's properties. Delayed write failures occur when cached writes are left in host or drive memory and never committed upon shutdown/standby/hibernate.

Well this is actually not a playlist for me..... Its playing a Genre.

I will grab the logs tonight and mail them to you chuck.

After testing this for a while it is only happening in the Genre... it doenst happen anywhere else.