Now Playing Section Issues Using Flash Player

[linuxman]

I've noticed that when you use the web player that it is very apparent that the now playing playlist is only displaying as the music is streamed. Well the flash player caches the whole song in seconds compared to a m3u stream.

A way to fix that would be to display the now playing till the next song is cached for that player instead of the stream and put a timeout value on it for people who just let the player stream open without closing out the player or song.

See I pay attention to how you are doing some of this Sindre . Maybe I'll get brave someday and start looking at the code.

[linuxman]

Ok what happens is that the webplayer caches so quickly the song that once it completes the caching it quits showing in the whats playing now list way before the song quits playing. Mine does it on average of about 10 seconds cause I have a gbit switch in my lan and not slow at all. So if you could put a timeout and leave it showing until either the player closes or a new song streams it would be more like the behaviour of the streaming player. Then in case something gets stuck you put a 10 minute timeout and it drops.

[braddyo]

I brought up the issue in another thread here to which Sindre responded. Doesn't look like he's aware of a solution, but your suggestion sounds like it would work.