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    markroku
    #1 Posted : Saturday, March 06, 2010 10:51:52 PM
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    Hi... I've been using Jamcast for awhile and for queing up music and getting it played through my Roku M1001's it works great.

    However, I'm having some problem with the playlists I have on WMP showing up on the M1001 while using Jamcast. I just have one "set" playlist and when I try to use it the Jamcast server only picks up on one artist in the list while there are probably 6-10 different artists represented. The artist isn't even the first or last alphabetically on the list and for that matter the list is shuffled in WMP so I'm not sure how Jamcast picked the one artist, but it does pick the same one each time.

    I also have a number of "auto" playlists that are generated by WMP based on different criteria I've specified and do a different playlist each time within those criteria. Those "auto" playlists don't show up at all on the M1001 using Jamcast so obviously don't work at all.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,

    Mark
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    Scott
    #2 Posted : Monday, March 08, 2010 1:39:08 PM
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    Joined: 1/25/2009
    Posts: 1,125
    Location: Orlando, FL, USA
    markroku wrote:
    Hi... I've been using Jamcast for awhile and for queing up music and getting it played through my Roku M1001's it works great.

    However, I'm having some problem with the playlists I have on WMP showing up on the M1001 while using Jamcast. I just have one "set" playlist and when I try to use it the Jamcast server only picks up on one artist in the list while there are probably 6-10 different artists represented. The artist isn't even the first or last alphabetically on the list and for that matter the list is shuffled in WMP so I'm not sure how Jamcast picked the one artist, but it does pick the same one each time.

    I also have a number of "auto" playlists that are generated by WMP based on different criteria I've specified and do a different playlist each time within those criteria. Those "auto" playlists don't show up at all on the M1001 using Jamcast so obviously don't work at all.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,

    Mark

    Hi Mark,

    If you take a look at your importlog.txt logfile, located in the Jamcast installation directory, you may see errors related to the import of this playlist of yours. What you report sounds like problems reading the playlist, yet the one artist Jamcast gets right clearly has no issue.

    If you need help with interpreting the logfile, please feel free to paste it to http://pastebin.org and share it here and I'm happy to take a look at it for you.

    Regarding the auto playlists, this is the expected behavior as WMP doesn't store those on disk in WPL files like your user playlists. If this is something you'd really like to see in the future, let me know and I'll add it to the enhancement tracker on your behalf.

    Thanks!
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    markroku
    #3 Posted : Tuesday, March 09, 2010 8:43:21 PM
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    Joined: 1/15/2010
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    Scott,

    I recently bought the production release and hadn't checked on how it handled my fixed playlists before making my post. Guess what... I checked it out and it worked just fine.

    On the auto playlists from WMP... that would be something nice to be able to access through the Jamcast server as I've got a number of them constructed with specific genres, how long it has been since the song has been played, etc. It then generates a 50 song playlist based on that criteria which is nice to have.

    So... if you could add it to the list of possible future enhancements I would appreciate it.

    Thanks for the quick response and thanks to Jamcasst for keeping my Roku M1001's working for me since Windows 7/WMP 12 made for a few glitches with them that neither Roku or Microsoft were going to fix.

    Mark
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