After starting an album midway through playback jumps to Track 1

[quantock]

Something I've noticed is that when starting an album midway through, for example at track 5 or 6 (or anything other than 1) the Now Playing playlist will jump back to track one after the selected track completes, begin playing the album from the beginning, then skip over the track you had first selected (but had already listened to), and then play the rest of the album.

So for example, if I start an album at track 5, track 5 will play to completion, then the playlist will jump back to track 1, then it will play track 1-4.  Once it reaches track 5 it will skip over it, I guess because it's 'already been played' and then tracks 6 to the end of the album will play.

Ever other media player I've ever used, and the behavior which I would expect/want is that the album would progress normally from where it was started, so if track 5 was selected, then track 6 would play when it was done, and the album would progress normally to the end.

I can't say I remember this happening in the earlier releases.. it seems to maybe have started after the last update or two, probably when changes were made to the Now Playing queue.  I imagine this is not intended behavior.. but possibly it is.  If it is working as intended, I ask that you please reconsider!!  As always, thanks for your time and keep up the good work ?

[neil9000]

2 hours ago, quantock said:

Something I've noticed is that when starting an album midway through, for example at track 5 or 6 (or anything other than 1) the Now Playing playlist will jump back to track one after the selected track completes, begin playing the album from the beginning, then skip over the track you had first selected (but had already listened to), and then play the rest of the album.

So for example, if I start an album at track 5, track 5 will play to completion, then the playlist will jump back to track 1, then it will play track 1-4.  Once it reaches track 5 it will skip over it, I guess because it's 'already been played' and then tracks 6 to the end of the album will play.

Ever other media player I've ever used, and the behavior which I would expect/want is that the album would progress normally from where it was started, so if track 5 was selected, then track 6 would play when it was done, and the album would progress normally to the end.

I can't say I remember this happening in the earlier releases.. it seems to maybe have started after the last update or two, probably when changes were made to the Now Playing queue.  I imagine this is not intended behavior.. but possibly it is.  If it is working as intended, I ask that you please reconsider!!  As always, thanks for your time and keep up the good work ?

I actually just noticed this myself yesterday, exactly the same behaviour. Start with a track in the middle of a album and it plays that track and then starts playing the album from the beginning once that track has finished.

[Jason Carr]

Thanks guys, I'm surprised I haven't noticed this myself. We'll get it fixed.

[Jason Carr]

Hey guys, put out a couple updated versions in the last few days. This issue should be fixed (as well as some others).

[quantock]

Thank you for getting this fixed ?

[quantock]

After using MBA a bit again lately, I have to say the thing most bothering me at this point is how long of a delay there is in between tracks.  Sometimes it takes ~5 seconds of delay before the next track starts playing but it is pretty much never instantaneous.. there is always some type of delay.  I will say that I am using high quality FLACS which may take longer to load, but it's a bummer when listening to an album where the tracks are supposed to flow smoothly from one to the next without interruption.  I remember certain media players giving the option to manually control how long of a pause is in between tracks but I would certainly appreciate having the ability to have no delay at all as an option if not the default setting.  I realize this may be more of a technical thing rather than purely a design thing, but there must be a way to get the next track loaded ahead of time and cached so that it is ready by the end of the current track.

The other thing that is a bit confusing to me is how the 'Now Playing' functionality works.  I have never seen a media player where items are removed from the queue as you go through it.  As a frequent example, sometimes I just finish listening to a song and want to remember what it was called, but when I pull up the queue it is no longer there..  Usually when a queue completes, the entire list of items remains so that you can easily start the queue over again.  Also, it seems it would make sense if you could add/remove items from the queue list, and rearrange items via click and drag, or trigger a different song in the queue via double click.  Are these just things you haven't gotten around to implementing yet or is the Now Playing queue working as intended?  If it's a matter of not getting around to it yet, would you by any chance be willing to share what your long term vision is for Now Playing queue functionality?

 

Thanks again for getting the initially reported issue fixed  ? 

[Jason Carr]

On 8/10/2020 at 10:38 PM, quantock said:

After using MBA a bit again lately, I have to say the thing most bothering me at this point is how long of a delay there is in between tracks.  Sometimes it takes ~5 seconds of delay before the next track starts playing but it is pretty much never instantaneous.. there is always some type of delay.  I will say that I am using high quality FLACS which may take longer to load, but it's a bummer when listening to an album where the tracks are supposed to flow smoothly from one to the next without interruption.  I remember certain media players giving the option to manually control how long of a pause is in between tracks but I would certainly appreciate having the ability to have no delay at all as an option if not the default setting.  I realize this may be more of a technical thing rather than purely a design thing, but there must be a way to get the next track loaded ahead of time and cached so that it is ready by the end of the current track.

This is on my radar as well. In the mean time, it's worth noting that if you use FLAC files with embedded cues (the format that MBA rips to), the songs will play seamlessly one after another, because that's how they're encoded. But I know that re-encoding files isn't always an option.

On 8/10/2020 at 10:38 PM, quantock said:

The other thing that is a bit confusing to me is how the 'Now Playing' functionality works.  I have never seen a media player where items are removed from the queue as you go through it.  As a frequent example, sometimes I just finish listening to a song and want to remember what it was called, but when I pull up the queue it is no longer there..  Usually when a queue completes, the entire list of items remains so that you can easily start the queue over again.  Also, it seems it would make sense if you could add/remove items from the queue list, and rearrange items via click and drag, or trigger a different song in the queue via double click.  Are these just things you haven't gotten around to implementing yet or is the Now Playing queue working as intended?  If it's a matter of not getting around to it yet, would you by any chance be willing to share what your long term vision is for Now Playing queue functionality?

Now playing is working at intended, but I do see your point. It's meant to be a queue of what's coming up in the list.