Suggested Songs Dynamic Playlist

[Seb Ruiz]

my plan is to make the suggested dynamic mode much more robust, with
artist-suggestion mappings etc, but can only do so when i return home.
will be a couple of months at least until results begin to appear.

seb

On 14/12/06, Lucky Captain Rabbit King <jer at gweep.net> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've been seeing the Suggested Songs Dynamic Playlist getting wedged on a single
> artist.  When another artist is played, the song that is queued is based on
> the first artist played.  I think this is due to the playlist cache <b>m_cachedItemSet</b>
> being generated seeded with the first artist, and new tracks are queued from this
> cache.
>
> locally, I've changed _DynamicMode::retrieveTracks_ to not use the cache
> if the dynamicList type is SUGGESTION:
>
> if(( m_cachedItemSet.count() <= trackCount ) || (appendType() == SUGGESTION) )
>    {
>      debug() << "Refreshing cached items" << endl;
>      rebuildCachedItemSet();
>    }
>
> but, a better answer would be to associate an artist name with the cache,
> and use the same cache for multiple tracks by the same artist.  This could
> explode greatly with a lot of different artists.
> or refresh only when the artist changes from the last time the cache was filled.
>
>                -jer
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