Orbiter Default Media Display Order

[dothedog]

Apologies if this has been answered, but I couldn't find a similar question after some searches. I have recently upgraded to 10.04 and everything is working fine except for this. Basically, whenever I do a quick reload on the core, all the orbiters show music sorted by Album. I then have to go into each orbiter, go to Audio, select Other, then change Album to Performer, then hit go. It is then good until the next quick reload. This is impacting the WAF. Also, it seems like every time I start an orbiter, it always asks me if I want to quick reload because something has changed, even though I haven't changed anything.

So 2 questions:
1. Is there a way to default the sort on Audio to Performer instead of album.
2. Is there a way to debug why the orbiters always want to quick reload whenever they start. Is this expected behavior?

Thanks in advance for your help on this.

Rob

[Marie.O]

1. yes
2. they want to quick reload when the MD starts. This is expected behavior (but not very nice).

[Armor Gnome]

1.

web-admin
left column "orbiters"

top of the list on your right are two default sorting settings, one for video one for audio

change settings, quick reload (may not be necessary but is a good habit whenever applying changes)

Enjoy

* I use default performer for audio because of the way I store my files, and apply picture tags to the performer which is then applied to all files in that directory that do not have their own art.

[dothedog]

Armor Gnome,
Ok, I feel a little stupid. Never saw that up there after all these years. Thanks for pointing that out Armor Gnome, you never stop learning I guess.

posde,
on 2. this happens on Orbiter start (web-orbiters, windows orbiters, etc.) , MD's are always on. Same deal?

Rob

[Marie.O]

It always happens when a device changed state. You might want to watch DCERouter and see if you can find the culprit causing this.

[dothedog]

posde,
Thanks for the response,
Is there something I can grep in DCERouter.log? Not sure what I am looking for...

Rob

[tschak909]

Not so much in the log, but libDCE and DCERouter need to be studied to see when the reload router flag is set. It has to do with the fact that the DCE Router caches all values that it passes around, and when this changes, it flips a Reload flag.

-Thom

[dothedog]

tschak909,
Thanks for the reply. Any thoughts on how to do that? I'm moderately capable on command line, but not a programmer.

Rob

[tschak909]

You'll need the source code, here:

http://svn.linuxmce.org/svn/branches/LinuxMCE-1004/src

and the code for DCERouter and DCE are in src/DCERouter and src/DCE respectively. There is no way to debug this from the command line, it is an issue in the code, and you'll need to bone up on C++ programming if you want to fix this.

-Thom

[dothedog]

Thom,
Well, I guess I am going to have to live with it as I really don't know any C++. Its not a huge problem, just an annoyance really. Thanks for the reply though.

Rob