Playlists have no memory

[urville]

Using the built in player in a direct connection to the server the player cant remember where I was in the playlist later (next day or after closing the browser). This is also true of several of the windows apps, and none of the windows apps (Excluding 8 and 10 apps ( i have no ideabecause NOPE to W10)) have the ability to star songs.

So I need a way to play the playlists and have it remember day to day my position and what has been played, and i need to be able to star songs. Is there any way to do this? It's driving me crazy because this seems like just a given on functionality.

[acroyear]

The API gives that power to individual apps, and my own app, SubFire (available as a Chrome app or playable on the web), will remember which file you left off at in a playlist. It is only local, on the same browser/machine, though i have an idea how to make this shared across machines that I hope to build by the end of May. My reason for not doing it sooner is that I have a knack for changing my own playlists constantly (see the 'radio' I added to my website) so it isn't always useful to me anymore.

I'm increasingly thinking that the app developers should try to get together and come up with some standard practices for using the two-way parts of the API (comments, playlists, bookmarks, play queues) as ways in which one can switch from app to app and still keep certain features going. But not this weekend, as I'm out all day...but I'll think about it and see what I can start up.

[urville]

No! I dont really worry so much about across machines. I use it at work, but I go home, come back, turn it on and it starts over. Even on the direct connection. Jamstash always forgets now, it never used to.

I will try SubFire! Some of the listed windows apps dont even work anymore, lol. I think I had most of them until I finally thought ok, i will try a music player but had no luck there either.

[urville]

Tried SubFire. It saves the playlist, but not my spot on it. Man, trying to find something that knows where I was in a playlist yesterday, is super difficult.

[acroyear]

By spot on it you mean the song itself or the specific point in the song?

It is supposed to remember the last song in any playlist for the same machine that played it (technically, the same *instance*, so viewing it in chrome is a different instance than viewing it in firefox - it uses local storage) and come back to that. it works for me pretty consistently.

If you use the 'save play queue' feature, that also should remember the song you left off at, and that should bring you back to that no matter what machine you use subfire on. but it isn't automatic, you have to click it. the playlist memory is supposed to be automatic.

i am working on cross-instance memory (using the bookmarks feature) but i'm not in a position to get that published for at least a week unless something changes to free up my schedule a bit.

[urville]

By spot on it you mean the song itself or the specific point in the song?

Which song in the list I was on.

It is supposed to remember the last song in any playlist for the same machine that played it

Exactly! Same browser everyday on the same machine. I rather dont mind, in fact I like it, being in different places/different lists on every device. it definitely works in the Android app I use on my S6. but... Hmmm... Everytime I go back in on this same machine/same browser, it starts back at the first song in the playlist.

The only thing I can think of is to go into the browser and just clear everything and try again. Let me do that and see what happens.

[acroyear]

in my case, i prefer cross-machine 'memory' because i often am listening to a playlist in the office, then want to continue where i left off when i get to the car and am on my phone.