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Subject: Re: Review Request 118406: Notify the user if the location containing the media is inaccessible.
From: "R.Harish Navnit" <harishnavnit () gmail ! com>
Date: 2014-06-05 9:51:22
Message-ID: CADBhiF0J0UApS26oLg=RgP1O6AZnJN_yWs5eVBB88Ebwhz818w () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar@autistici.org>
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> Does PMC really have to be restarted to detect that the location is now accessible? \
> That's not really a nice situation. The whole message seems overly dramatic to me, \
> especially in a playlist. Imagine you have a playlist with 50 songs in it, and \
> three of them are on a location which isn't accessible. What would you prefer? a) \
> Having to close PMC, make the location accessible and then restart it
> You could still skip over to the next songs even in this case. Just that,
whenever you stumble upon inaccessible media you'll get the error message
as shown in the screenshot. The next and prev buttons do retain their
functionalities ;)
Well, that's what I intent to implement as a fix for this bug.
> b) Just skip over those three songs and happily listen to the other 47
>
> Yes, you can skip over those songs and listen to other songs. But for the
3 songs that are inaccessible, the application has to be restarted after
mounting(if unmounted) the device/drive containing it.
> If we're not in a playlist, the problem should rarely occur because the browser \
> only shows currently accessible media anyway, right?
> Yes, I can't think of any other situation when this might be required.
R.Harish Navnit
The Enigma <http://harishnavnit.wordpress.com/>
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<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">Does PMC really have to be \
restarted to detect that the location is now accessible? That's not really a nice \
situation. The whole message seems overly dramatic to me, especially in a playlist. \
Imagine you have a playlist with 50 songs in it, and three of them are on a location \
which isn't accessible. What would you prefer? a) Having to close PMC, make the \
location accessible and then restart it</pre></div></div></blockquote><div>You could \
still skip over to the next songs even in this case. Just that, whenever you stumble \
upon inaccessible media you'll get the error message as shown in the screenshot. \
The next and prev buttons do retain their functionalities ;)</div> <div>Well, \
that's what I intent to implement as a fix for this bug. </div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px \
0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><pre \
style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">b) Just skip over those three songs \
and happily listen to the other 47</pre></div></div></blockquote> <div>Yes, you can \
skip over those songs and listen to other songs. But for the 3 songs that are \
inaccessible, the application has to be restarted after mounting(if unmounted) the \
device/drive containing it.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px \
0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><pre \
style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">If we're not in a playlist, the \
problem should rarely occur because the browser only shows currently accessible media \
anyway, right?</pre> </div></div></blockquote><div>Yes, I can't think of any \
other situation when this might be required. </div><div><br></div><div><div \
dir="ltr"><div><br class="">R.Harish Navnit<br></div><a \
href="http://harishnavnit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The Enigma</a><br> \
</div></div><div> </div></div></div></div>
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