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Bug #74: Floater doesn't update if tracks are skipped while iTunes is paused or stopped

Kind bug
Product Synergy
When Created , updated
Status closed
Reporter Greg Hurrell
Tags no tags

Description

From a user email: "If I switch tracks in iTunes using the keyboard shortcuts when iTunes is not playing, Synergy does not notice that the track has changed. The floater continues to show the old track."

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My reply: "If I've read what you've written correctly, then I'm not sure this is a bug.

The floater shows the *currently playing* track, not the currently selected one. So if iTunes is not playing and you change the selection, then of course the Synergy floater will not update.

Please let me know if I've misinterpreted what you wrote."

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And the user's reply: "Sorry, should have clarified that this is in the Party Shuffle playlist -- the currently active song, the one with the gradient bar, just not playing because iTunes is paused.

Hitting Forward and Reverse (from iTunes or Synergy's keyboard shortcuts) changes the track, but Synergy does not notice until I hit Play."

Comments

  1. Greg Hurrell

    The behaviour you've described isn't unique to Party Shuffle. The same thing happens in any other playlist if you stop playback and then move forward or back through the playlist.

    I've opened this bug report for this, although the truth is I consider this to be a bug in iTunes, not in Synergy. Synergy current uses zero CPU when used with iTunes 4.7, because it doesn't constantly poll iTunes saying, "What track is selected? What track is selected? How about now? And now? How about right now?". Instead, it waits for iTunes to notify, "I am now playing this track".

    So I am going to mark this as WONTFIX, because working around it would require me to go back to polling and I don't consider that to be a good move at all. If you'd like to see the behaviour changed then I suggested you file some feedback with Apple:

    http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html

  2. Greg Hurrell

    Making as CLOSED, but feel free to add comments if you don't agree with my decision.

  3. Greg Hurrell

    It appears that Apple has corrected this behaviour in iTunes 4.7.1.

  4. Greg Hurrell

    Marking as CLOSED, WORKSFORME.

  5. Greg Hurrell

    Marking as CLOSED.

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