Audio file formats are using item_play_duration as pictures

[laice]

I'm using this to queue .mp3 files, and I noticed instead of treating item_play_duration like a video when not set - playing until the end and changing - it's treating it like an image and repeating/restarting the .mp3 for 60 seconds if its shorter, or cutting it off early if its longer

[EugeneDae]

I was able to reproduce this, but not consistently. Thank you @laice

The program has to sleep for 0.25 seconds before it can retrieve the length of the media file from VLC (code, ). Maybe raising the sleep duration might help.

What OS are you on?

[laice]

Sorry should have said, that was OSX. Once I get my other dev environments caught up for the project I'm using this in I'll report on Windows and Linux E: clarity, formatting

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[EugeneDae]

I've built a macOS version for you, please give it a shot.
https://github.com/EugeneDae/VLC-Scheduler/releases/tag/v0.3.3-alpha

[laice]

E: After some testing I realized I had item_play_duration set wrong. It seems to be adding and playing fine now except for a couple things:

For some reason a 3+ min music mp3 gets shortened to the length of the previous 11 second clip. It was added to the folder during playback but for some reason still gets reduced to the previous mp3s length after restarting the program. Going to play around with this more with other mp3s and durations

When the watched directory is added to while the scheduler is running, the playlist resets back to the beginning of the first mp3

Let me know if there's any other way I can help! Thanks for your work

[laice]

I'm also getting the new mp3 added to folder during playback resets the playlist issue in Windows

[EugeneDae]

Unfortunately, it is by design that the playback resets when something changes in the watched folders. I plan to change this when I have time (it might turn out harder than it seems).

Speaking of the lengths, I'm sure we can fix this. Would you mind emailing those mp3 to me? ([email protected]) If you'd rather not share, I'll find a way, no probs. Thanks!

[laice]

Oh I see, I didn't realize that's intended functionality. Having that at least be optional so the list can be updated live without interference would be really helpful in my use case. I sent you an email with some example mp3s

[laice]

After further testing, it seems that setting the source_media_function to "chain" stops the initial repeating issue, however it seems periodically the playlist is "locking in" a duration and it forces several subsequent mp3s to adhere to this duration - either repeating if shorter, or cutting it off if longer.