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Hi,

I've gone from MCE to Front Row to now XBMC for Mac and I think its *fantastic*.

I'm still getting to grips with it all, but its kind of straight forward, movies sorted - and look absolutely fabulous. Just starting to understand how the music works, but I've hit a problem:

- I cannot get Next track to work (skip to next track). I've tried using the keyboard shortcut "period", nothing, i've pressed "m" to get the controls up and selected next track, nothing, i've used my mouse to click it, nothing....help!

One other point, is it possible to check the current version of skin you're using...i think i'm using 0.88 but there was mediastream skin with xbmc for mac and it might be using an older version.

I think I've covered everything, any help would be really appreciated.


thanks, Rod.

Hi there, and welcome!

What sort of tracks are you playing - just plain songs? Have you tried the PM3 skin? It may be that this is a MediaStream-specific problem.

Unfortunately there's no way to find the version of the skin you are using, assuming that the skin doesn't embed versioning information inside itself somewhere (which most don't.)

I believe that it was 0.87 that was released with Alpha4, so removing that completely and overwriting with 0.88 would be the way to go.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Hi,

Thanks for replying, I have tried changing the skin to PM3 and the problem is still there - so it looks like its not a mediastream skin issue - apologies for posting here, i kind of assumed...oops

Everything, *everything*, else is working fine, i just can't skip a track...which is kind of annoying when you don't want to listen to it - previous track works fine!

thanks anyway

Interesting. Is there anything in the Debug Log about it at all? Are you playing normal songs (mp3 and the like) or is it streaming music from lastfm or something?

Anything you can do to help us track it down would be a fantastic help!

Will move to the mac forums so that others can help as well

Cheers,
Jonathan

you might have to give me a clue as to the Debug Log.

its just straight forward mp3s, I'm starting to understand how the music section works, queue up albums etc....but i just cannot get the next track to work. Its almost as if it will go to the next track but not start playing it (i.e. i can see the next track selected under the now playing and moves through the trakcs but doesn't play), if i keep pressing it, it must eventually get to the end of the album because it then just stops.

Give me a clue about the Debug Log and I'l let you know the details.

thanks, you're a star!

The debug log should be stored in:

/Users/<yourusername>/Library/Logs/xbmc.log

(or ~/Library/Logs/xbmc.log)

Note: I just tested on my mac (I'm new to the mac) and it works fine here, so something weird is going on.

Cheers,
Jonathan

ok, found it!

There's a great deal of info in there!

I've taken a copy from when i press "period", here goes:

00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 75005952 DEBUG: OnKey: 61630 pressed, action is 14
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 75005952 DEBUG: new file set audiostream:0
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 75005952 DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactor::GetPlayers(musicdb://3/180/2234.mp3)
00:06:27 T:2966269952 M: 75780096 DEBUG: staticThread, deleting thread graphic context
00:06:27 T:2966269952 M: 75780096 DEBUG: Thread 2966269952 terminating
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 90857472 INFO: MP3Codec: Loaded decoder at 0x17ff6000
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 90857472 DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(Q:\system\players\paplayer\MACDll-osx.so)
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 90857472 DEBUG: Loading: /Library/Application Support/XBMC/system/players/paplayer/MACDll-osx.so
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 90849280 WARNING: Unable to resolve: MACDll-osx.so _Z16c_GetAPEDurationPKc, reason: dlsym(0x1fec950, _Z16c_GetAPEDurationPKc): symbol not found
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 90849280 ERROR: Unable to resolve exports from dll Q:\system\players\paplayer\MACDll-osx.so
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 90849280 DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(Q:\system\libid3tag-osx.so)
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 90849280 DEBUG: Loading: /Library/Application Support/XBMC/system/libid3tag-osx.so
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 75051008 DEBUG: CFileCache::Open - opening <3/180/2234.mp3> using cache
00:06:27 T:2966269952 M: 75030528 DEBUG: Running thread 2966269952
00:06:27 T:2966269952 M: 75046912 DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 74948608 INFO: PAP Player: Queuing next file musicdb://3/180/2234.mp3
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 74424320 INFO: [PortAudio] INFO: Creating stream 1.
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 74424320 NOTICE: Asked to create device: [Built-in Output]
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 74424320 NOTICE: Device should be digital: [1]
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 74424320 NOTICE: Channels: [2]
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 74424320 NOTICE: Sample Rate: [44100]
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 74424320 NOTICE: BitsPerSample: [16]
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 74424320 NOTICE: PacketSize: [3840]
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 74424320 DEBUG: Considering: [Built-in Output]
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 74424320 NOTICE: Picked device: [Built-in Output]
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 74424320 ERROR: [PortAudio] Error opening stream: -9986.
00:06:27 T:2688073632 M: 74420224 DEBUG: PAPlayer::SetStreamVolume - stream 1, volume: 0
00:06:28 T:2961051648 M: 74379264 INFO: AudioDecoder: File is queued

Does that help?

so its looking like the problem is that it won't play the next track, i can select which next track i would like it to play....but i have to wait for the current track to finish...is that by design? i'm guessing not.

can i reinstall easily without losing all my libraries? and settings?

Ah - this is the problem:


Do you happen to have cross fading enabled? Settings->Music

Perhaps this is what is failing.

Cheers,
Jonathan

you, *you*, my friend are a genuis!!! WORKING! and I am such a happy boy!

thank you thank you thank you superstar!

Awesome. I'll post a trac report about crossfading not working so that we can get it looked in to. It's interesting that it still manages to work on trac changes though (i.e. when the current track finishes) - does it actually crossfade the music at this point?

Cheers,
Jonathan

Trac ticket posted: http://www.xbmc.org/trac/ticket/4745