DLSLIDER Bug with Artist View

JohnWPB · 11-24-2007, 02:36 PM

The new iLists and all the work that has went into the lastest version are amazing! I have run across a couple of glitches / bugs:

Using iLists, when browsing the default music directory, and you use a DLSLIDER to jump way down the list, RR skips most of the letters of the alphabet and slows to a stop at the selected point, working perfectly.

When you are using the

-- Album --
-- Artist --
-- Genre --

At the top of the list, and select "Artist" the DLSLIDER acts differently. It scrolls through each and every artist in the list. It took RR over 2 minutes to get to the bottom of the list watching every single artist scroll by

I have a lot of artists, as I have a lot of compilation albums, so the list is quite long.

Also the DLFORMAT does not seem to be working with the iLists. I have the following code in my skin, on a button, to toggle how the names are displayed in the browser list:

Code:

B,698,84,98,79,"DLFORMAT;%title%||SWITCHBUTTON;10>>DLFORMAT;%artist% - %title%||SWITCHBUTTON;10>>DLFORMAT;%title% - %artist%||SWITCHBUTTON;10",

This also does not work on the Playlists as well. When I press the button, the iList flickers but the list format for the names displayed do not change.

guino · 11-25-2007, 06:46 AM

I'll check on the formats...

On the scroll issue, from what I could test it worked fine here, can you send me an example so I can look at it ?

JohnWPB · 11-25-2007, 03:51 PM

I just tossed a Video up on YouTube, as I didnt know how else to give you an example. Here it is:

Scrolling Issue

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I cut the video above short, just so it was not a huge upload. The list took 1 minute and 23 seconds to stop scrolling, and to reach the position of the slider. The same happens when using the "Jump to letter" feature in RR.

EDIT: With further testing, when I am in the standard browser mode, and click anywhere on the slider, the list stop scrolling in almost exactly 1 second. If I am at the top, click the center of the slider, 1 second. If I am at the top, and click the bottom of the slider, 1 second. SO it appears RR has some code to skin a portion and slow the scroll to a stop in 1 second.

While viewing artists, as the above video illustrates, it does not do any type of "jump" and scrolls through every single item.

guino · 11-26-2007, 07:15 AM

Do you have any idea of how many artists you have ? This may be related to the number of items it's trying to "jump"..

Quote: Originally Posted by JohnWPB

I just tossed a Video up on YouTube, as I didnt know how else to give you an example. Here it is:

Scrolling Issue

Close

You need to upgrade your Flash Player

I cut the video above short, just so it was not a huge upload. The list took 1 minute and 23 seconds to stop scrolling, and to reach the position of the slider. The same happens when using the "Jump to letter" feature in RR.

EDIT: With further testing, when I am in the standard browser mode, and click anywhere on the slider, the list stop scrolling in almost exactly 1 second. If I am at the top, click the center of the slider, 1 second. If I am at the top, and click the bottom of the slider, 1 second. SO it appears RR has some code to skin a portion and slow the scroll to a stop in 1 second.

While viewing artists, as the above video illustrates, it does not do any type of "jump" and scrolls through every single item.

JohnWPB · 11-26-2007, 01:04 PM

I was trying to figure out a way to tell that..... Then thought of Media center, it has a "By Artist" list. The total artists I have are 4,157.

guino · 11-26-2007, 02:49 PM

I have one other report saying that the list sometimes does crazy jumps like that when over 3800 items or so.. it works, it just doesn't do the fast-skip it's supposed to do.

MGD · 11-27-2007, 10:46 AM

I have a similar issue with the playlist. I have one with 2750 songs in it and when I play in shuffle mode the list just keep scrolling till it finds the next song to play. There is no fast jump to the next song.

guino · 11-27-2007, 03:30 PM

I have to test this thing -- I need to get a few more songs to try it first.

JohnWPB · 12-01-2007, 01:33 PM

You can just make a an empty text file, and copy it like 10 times, then copy that 10 times, and that 10 times and so forth to get a couple thousand text files.

Then you can test the jump to letter on a standard directory list.

guino · 12-04-2007, 06:46 AM

I've got this fixed.