Fix year in playlist

[ytechie]

I don't know if anyone else has the occasional long year (includes date and time) in the playlist, but here is how to limit the year to four places.

We are going to edit playlist.jsp. Here is the part we are going to edit:

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if ($("genre" + id)) {
   dwr.util.setValue("genre" + id, song.genre);
}
if ($("year" + id)) {
   dwr.util.setValue("year" + id, song.year);
}
if ($("bitRate" + id)) {
   dwr.util.setValue("bitRate" + id, song.bitRate);
}

replace the year with

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if ($("year" + id)) {
   if (song.year) {
      dwr.util.setValue("year" + id, song.year.substring(0,4));
   } else {
      dwr.util.setValue("year" + id, song.year);
   }
}

Hope this helps!

[BKKKPewsey]

If I remember my substring arguments correctly that will be ok for American users but for the more civilised nations
who use the dd/mm/yyyy format methinks that will not work

[ytechie]

Actually, in America we generally use the mm/dd/yyyy format, but I think subsonic deals with UTC timestamps. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601.

[BKKKPewsey]

Yep it would appear that the tagging programs (well mine is ) are using the UTC format when writing the tag info.
So the Mediaplayer/Tagging programs are doing locale conversion automatically - well I'm impressed
Hence the tag info - and therefore SS should have the year first so your mod should work for any locale.
I always strip the dd/mm info from my tags at source so it doesn't effect me
Also with 4.6 I notice that SS seems to be stripping the dd/mm info off the year info so perhaps Sindre's beaten you to it

[ytechie]

Sindre probably has beaten me to it. I still use 4.5, and I actually removed the mod after a few minutes. I like to see the date if it's there. It doesn't really bother me.

Since you're using 4.6, can you tell me if the double track bug still bites?

When you add the same track to the webplayer playlist twice, does the player loop to the first track when finishing the second?

[BKKKPewsey]

Yes it does
I notice that if I enter the same track twice in the same playlist the now playing icon appears next to both the duplicated tracks.
So as already described if you have duplicate tracks say in position 1 & 3 it will play track 1 then 2 then 3 then back to 2 (or forward from 1 ).
I have never noticed that as my memory isn't that bad but if you are in the habit of making very long playlists it could be become a problem.
Fortunately for me I use MM to create my playlists and I have it set for no dups even for the auto playlists

[ytechie]

Unfortunately, I tried to figure out how to fix this issue, but it is not very simple. I know exactly why it happens, but because of the way everything works together, this is difficult to fix. For now. I haven't given up.