Potential Radio Problem

[diviad]

There have been a few times now where the following has happened:

I'll join the chat and pause the radio.  After some time, say 20 mins, I will press play.  It will start off where I left it, but the title reading will be the currently streaming song, not the song I am listening to which is 20 mins old. 

Sometimes I will be talking about a song that I am listening to and everyone in the chat probably has no idea because they may have paused it too or they may be listening to the live segment or an older song.

Now this may be intentional, but it would probably be better if it was always the live segment when you pause then press play later.

[Ohmega]

Maybe you can make that it does not stop, it just mutes.
(Probably wrong english, but who cares?)

[Scaredgirl]

I thought I replied to this already.

The problem is that the button our player has is a PAUSE button, when it should be a STOP button. Now it might sound like there's an easy solution for that but unfortunately there isn't.

I plan on fixing it at some point but it might take a while as I have more important things to do first. If someone knows a fast solution for this, let me know. I would imagine it requires tweaking actionscript.

Yes, mute might work too but then the problem is that it still keeps downloading the music in the background, wasting resources.

[standizzle]

you could always have it so the user enters the chat room, and has to click to start the radio, instead of it loading by default.

or to simply have it have a X in the corner like windows applications, close'n it down. takes all of 3 seconds to refresh chat window if you change your mind.

[Scaredgirl]

you could always have it so the user enters the chat room, and has to click to start the radio, instead of it loading by default.

This is exactly what I did 2 days ago. Radio doesn't start automatically anymore.

However it doesn't remove the problem because when you press pause and play again, you are desynced. Only solution is to make the button to stop the stream instead of pausing it but surprisingly it's not as easy as it sounds.

[standizzle]

you could always have it so the user enters the chat room, and has to click to start the radio, instead of it loading by default.

This is exactly what I did 2 days ago. Radio doesn't start automatically anymore.

However it doesn't remove the problem because when you press pause and play again, you are desynced. Only solution is to make the button to stop the stream instead of pausing it but surprisingly it's not as easy as it sounds.

thought of a refresh option instead ? in other words.

you hit play, music plays. hit pause to pause or stop, and when you hit pause to play again, instead of reverting it back to play, it will refresh to the current tune being played and play the current song on the list instead of where you paused.

no fucking clue how you would make this happen, but just a thought as i whirl threw the forum.

[Iblis]

I would imagine it requires tweaking actionscript.

I thought actionscript was simple enough that all you'd have to do is replace button.onclick(pause) with button.onclick(stop), or however you write the AS code (it's been a while since I used AS, and I wasn't good at it then )

EDIT: Changed nasty blue colour to teal