Ducky wrote:Does that sound familiar?
Unfortunately yes.
Saving playlists in Leia DS is some kind of wrong software design. Leia DS (or any other control point) gets the meta data from the server, including the URL(s) to the song(s), and transfer it to the DS. When you load the playlist afterwards, the URL could be wrong because either the IP address of the server has changed or the URL has changed because the database of the server was completely rebuild in the main time. But the DS needs this URL to play the song. (You could even send me your playlist and I could load it into my DS successfully. But of course it won't play.)
So if you want to have resistant playlists, it's a very much better idea to save it (as m3u file) on the server and select it in the media browser afterwards.
But I decided to keep this feature in Leia DS anyway, because I think it's nice to have a possibility of saving playlists temporary. And if the server is configured to have a fixed IP address these playlists will usually work fine.
Beside this the next version of Leia DS will have an automatic IP-address-correction feature to get around of the problem that the IP address of the server has changed. And a future version of Leia DS will have a "repair" function, too, so it can repair playlists if the database of the server has changed in a way that the URLs to the songs had become invalid. Both will hopefully make the playlist-saving feature of Leia DS more usable. [1]
Even my wife has switched from MediaStreamer even after I warned her that Leia was still a work in progress. Now that is a compliment :D
:D Send her my best wishes!
Axel
[1] Saving a playlist in Leia DS is some kind of bookmarking postings from this forum within your web browser, but with fixed IP address, for example
http://195.47.247.60/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4485#4485. If the IP address of Fredriks server changes, this URL will become invalid. For that reason DNS was invented and the URL will be bookmarked as
http://www.lejonklou.com/forum/viewtopi ... =4485#4485 instead, "
www.lejonklou.com" will be translated to the actual IP address of Fredriks server whenever needed. "DNS for UPnP servers" - that's I will implement in the next version of Leia DS to handle this problem.
Now consider Fredrik will reorganize the database of his forum. Then "p=4485" will point to the wrong posting because the reorganization of the database has renumbered all the postings. Exactly that is happening when someone uses "Rebuild database" in Twonky, all of the songs will get renumbered so all the links inside the saved playlists will become invalid! Unfortunately this is not easy to handle.