selecting 'Hide Contents' may crash MinimServer

[simoncn]

(13-08-2012 23:09)bubbleguuum Wrote:  Not sure I understand you fully here, but indeed a CP will indeed refresh whenever it feels like to. The Media Server cannot force a CP to refresh although it can give hints it should (ContainerUpdateIDs, UpdateID).

The point is that a server can only send UpdateID to a control point when the control point is reading an item from that container. So if the control point takes a snapshot of a container and never reads the container again, it will never know that the container's UpdateID has changed.

You are right that the server can send the evented ContainerUpdateIDs variable as a solution to this problem. Does BubbleDS support this evented variable and refresh its containers accordingly?

Quote:In practice, 99% of containers contain static content so I do not see this as a big issue (but maybe I do not understand the exact use case you have in mind).

The use case is that a user adds a new album to their collection. This could cause updates to a number of containers that the control point is caching (albums, composers, artists, genres, etc.)

Quote:The few that do just implement lazy loading. When the end of the list is reached, new items are loaded with an annoying delay (and if possible an in your face popup so you can be sure it is loading).

Not good. It sounds like there might be an opportunity for a control point that does this in a smarter way.

Quote:People are used to search in regular desktop media players to filter stuff.

If I'm sitting on my sofa using an iPod as control point, I'd prefer not to pop up the small on-screen keyboard to type a search query.