Trackstat rating with remote on Touch

[lrossouw]

With my SB3s I can rate a song by pressing and holding a number on the remote. This doesn't seem to work on the touch. How do I get this to work?

[innovstar]

With my SB3s I can rate a song by pressing and holding a number on the remote. This doesn't seem to work on the touch. How do I get this to work?

Yes, it seems that this feature is missing and would be extremely useful.

As I also maintain an iTunes library, it would of being great if the touch could parse the itunes xml file to capture the rating info during setup or as post setup - menu option. Don't know if Touch's process capabilities could handle it??

Is this possible?

[lrossouw]

Yes, it seems that this feature is missing and would be extremely useful.

As I also maintain an iTunes library, it would of being great if the touch could parse the itunes xml file to capture the rating info during setup or as post setup - menu option. Don't know if Touch's process capabilities could handle it??

Is this possible?

To do what you need: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.ph...rt_for_ratings

[wildgoose]

I am also having the same problem, rating doesn't work on the Touch when holding down the number botton.

My guess is the Touch is handling the keypress, you see the image wobbles a bit and a beep to indicate the key press has been received, but rejected. It probably didn't pass the keypress to the Server which would trigger TrackStat. On the SBv3, it probably passed 'unknown' keypress back to the server.

[JohnSwenson]

I am also having the same problem, rating doesn't work on the Touch when holding down the number botton.

My guess is the Touch is handling the keypress, you see the image wobbles a bit and a beep to indicate the key press has been received, but rejected. It probably didn't pass the keypress to the Server which would trigger TrackStat. On the SBv3, it probably passed 'unknown' keypress back to the server.

On the SB3 every keypress goes directly to the server, there is no processing locally. In addition everything you see on the screen comes directly from the server.

This is not true on the Touch, its a very different architecture. The GUI (key presses, touches and screen drawing) get handled by a program called squeezeplay running on the Touch processor. Key presses don't get "passed on" to the server, they get processed on the Touch, if squeezeplay determines they mean a change in the server it sends commands to the server to tell it to do something.

In order to do what you are after squeezeplay would have to be modified to interpret your key presses appropriately and send the appropriate commands to the server. SP has an extension mechanism called applets which alows people to write code such as this and add them into SP. Applets are essentially the plugins for SP.

If the function in question doesn't have a command that can be sent over the network it might take both a plugin in the server and an applet on the Touch.

John S.

[jezbo]

Strange, I didnt have to do anything to get the rating via remote keypress to work on the touch, having previously configured it for an SB3. It doesn't acknowledge the rating change on the Touch display other than by shifting the display right a fraction for a fraction of a second, but it does seem to change the rating.