Barry,
Happy Festivus and salutations of the New Year!
I'm going to put aside my usual ETouch bugbear about when to use ALBUM ARTIST and when to use TRACK ARTIST, and how they should be separate database fields with another field for tie, for now. :)
But here's a few other little anomalies I've noticed over the years that perhaps you can have a look at if you're still maintaining this and are up for more debugging and coding.
These have all been present for some time now but I've just been slack in informing you about them since most of them are fairly minor. For the record, I am using ETouch version 10.1.6. (yes, I know 10.1.8 is out there and I'll download that later but I'm betting these bugs still exist)
I'll create this post and link to separate posts I'll also create since I will try my best to describe each item, providing some pertinent images from my system, in the hope you can replicate them and investigate... and stop one super-heavy image post that'll glaze your eyes over.
Here's my potential BUG post-jump list:-
- VIDEO CHARTS SEEM TO HAVE TROUBLE WITH 'Z' TRACK TITLES (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6354.0)
- TWO-STAR RATINGS SHOW AS ONE-STAR (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6353.0)
- "KARAOKE AVAILABLE" ICON IS DISPLAYED INCORRECTLY EVERY BOOT-UP (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6352.0)
- "ALTERNATE TRACKS" SECTION DUPLICATES ORIGINAL SONG IF TRACK ARTIST HAS PERIODS (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6351.0)
- SOME SONGS ARE JUST NOT FOUND VIA CHARTS (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6350.0)
- SOME CHART ENTRIES DON'T RETURN THE EXACT SONG I WANT (i.e. "EXACT MATCH" ISN'T AN EXACT MATCH) (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6349.0) - (also HANDLING "DOUBLE-SIDED" CHART ENTRIES)
- CHARTS "TEMPORARY(?) FIELD LENGTHS" NOT BIG ENOUGH (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6348.0)
- DISPLAYING CHART YEAR SELECTION ONLY WORKS WITH PARTICULAR PC DATE FORMAT (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6347.0) - (also NEXT DECADE WORTH OF CHART ENTRIES)
- SPASMODIC DUPLICATE QUEUE ITEMS WHEN I DON'T ALLOW ANY (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6346.0)
- TTS (TEXT TO SPEECH) BEHAVIOUR WHEN IT ENCOUNTERS PARENTHESES (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6345.0)
- CROSSFADE - SHOULD IT / DID IT EVER WORK? (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6344.0)
- "BACK COVER IMAGE NAME" VARIABLE DOESN'T SAVE? (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6343.0)
NOT BUGS PER SE BUT MORESO FUTURE "WISHLIST" ITEMSI'll just throw these all into one post here (http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6342.0). Contains:-
- PLAYLIST OPTIONS - SHOULD THEY DISPLAY COVER ART?
- KEYBOARD - CONTEMPLATE ADDING (SOME) NATIONAL CHARACTERS?
- "AUDIO AVAILABLE" BUTTON?
- ALBUM TRACK DISPLAY PAGE TO POSSIBLY DISPLAY SONG DATE RANGE?
I might have missed a couple thanks to my memory on any given day but that should be enough for now to keep you busy ;)
Cheers,
Wombat
Quote from: Barcrest on September 16, 2019, 10:19:02 AM
I will be closing the site down this year. I have just paid for 3 months hosting (Well paypal took it before I could cancel it). After that it is done.
Back after a long absence and sad to hear the above and presumably with it updates to Etouch... it offered a lot of features (especially the charts) that I haven't seen in other jukebox software.
It's therefore probably a forlorn hope, but did any of these bugs I reported in this thread get addressed (1-8 especially.... I think 9 got fixed)?
I'm hesitant to download the latest iteration of the software because it appears that might be introducing new problems (with apparent advice to rollback to a previous version).
10.1.9 should work. It would just be a case of backing up your existing install before trying and if you have issues just copy your previous version back.
I have had very little feedback on the latest release as to what is fixed.
Barry... downloaded and retesting above with 10.1.9 now some 9 months have passed (Wow! knew I'd been away for a while...)
Previously you postulated what could be happening in #9 (duplicate queue items when don't allow any) but don't know if you did anything to fix it at the time. Haven't done enough playing yet under current version to see if this reoccurs.
Also we tracked down the conditions in #11 (crossfade) and the details can be found in that thread (single screen vs dual screen basically.)
However, ALL of the other items still appear to be issues and you can click and read the relevant threads again to see what I deduced in my debugging (and screenshots to help describe the problem.)
The most annoying to me/my users at the moment are #5 (audio chart lookup for songs that are "last' in their letter grouping) and the possibly related #1 (video chart lookup for "Z" songs)
Not sure how keen you are to chase down these old bugs (reported January on v10.1.6 but they existed well before that) or were overwhelmed at the time but would be nice to resolve.
Some of those could be pretty easy to fix, I am not expecting to add anything new.
Barry, while your looking at the above bugs, please don't forget about these two:
Jump to letters A and # don't work when using the popup letter option. (The letters work when using the options to always have them on the screen)
When the now playing screen is shown on the second screen, the album cover for the Coming Next song doesn't show, but it does show on the main screen.
And one last oddity, not sure if it is skin related or not. When you add a song to the que, and have show confirmation added, it shows the name of the artist and album selected, but if you add a whole album, it either shows the name and artist of the last song selected, or just label 39 label 39 if no previous song was selected.
Thanks for looking at these.
Actually you will need to make sure you are running the latest beta when reporting bugs. 10.2.0 Beta 01 is the latest. This is the build I will be using to try and replicate the bugs mentioned in this thred.
Some things I will not be doing,
No new features. (Unless someone would like to pay me to add something and then I am straight on that).
Dualscreen/Signle screen differences (Namely cross fading. It works in dual screen so is there as a solution. I don't have the time to port this over to the single screen code)
Changing the date format expected (A lot of time was spent on this and it is just much easier for your guys to set it to U.K. on your jukeboxes)
Get the latest beta some of these are now fixed.
Just a note, the coming up next on second screen isn't a bug it was just never added.
Also the crossfade only works on dual screen as it was never coded for single screen.
Both of these I would consider additions, I would like to just focus on fixing up the bugs unless someone really want's something new adding then PM and we can maybe work something out.