> This morning, following a safe boot, I deleted/reinstalled the LMS
> prefpane -- and all is working.
This certainly should not be necessary... are you using the Group
Players plugin, or do you sync manually?
This is an issue I experienced for the first time a week or two ago,
when I was working on an updated helper binary. I thought it might have
been a problem with that new binary, but obviously it wasn't. What seems
to happen is that LMS for whatever reason decides that the first track
wasn't playable, thus skips to the next one. And here it repeats,
skipping all tracks in a playlist. I've seen it happen with non Spotify
tracks, too. But in the case of Spotty it's particularly bad, as each
attempt at playing a track would launch a helper instance. I've never
seen it happen with "real" players, but only in my testing with a local
Squeezeplay.
What you could try to do in such a case is just kill all those spotty
instances. "killall spotty" did help to bring LMS back to live...
> prefpane -- and all is working.
This certainly should not be necessary... are you using the Group
Players plugin, or do you sync manually?
This is an issue I experienced for the first time a week or two ago,
when I was working on an updated helper binary. I thought it might have
been a problem with that new binary, but obviously it wasn't. What seems
to happen is that LMS for whatever reason decides that the first track
wasn't playable, thus skips to the next one. And here it repeats,
skipping all tracks in a playlist. I've seen it happen with non Spotify
tracks, too. But in the case of Spotty it's particularly bad, as each
attempt at playing a track would launch a helper instance. I've never
seen it happen with "real" players, but only in my testing with a local
Squeezeplay.
What you could try to do in such a case is just kill all those spotty
instances. "killall spotty" did help to bring LMS back to live...
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