Playing back albums won't work

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So the new Plex is great when it comes to support for music - and albums.

However, when running Plexconnect on my atv3 I am not able to play entire albums, just by selecting them. I only get to play the first track, then I have to go back and select the next track etc. It also seems the time counter isn’t working properly - total song length is not showing, and the time bar is not moving while the song is playing.

I have the latest version of Plexconnect running on a Mac mini with Yosemite. Is this supposed to work? Complete album playback, that is? Or is it just not working?

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It should work. Continuous playing with like the PLAY button, one song with SELECT. Or the other way around? Try shuffle to get the complete album in random order.
Song length/time/progress bar issues are known - this comes up especially with transcoded files. Having no good idea about the root cause, I tend to blame the transcoder/PMS file handling. :smiley:

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Doesn’t work, strangely enough. When I press “Play” I just get the option to start the one song, when I use “Select” I just get the annoyed Apple “clonk” - telling me it’s an invalid command. Everything else is working fine.

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From templates/track.xml:

<oneLineMenuItem id=“{{VAL(key)}}”

onPlay=“atv.loadURL(‘{{URL(:::PlexConnect=Play_Audio&PlexConnectRatingKey={{VAL(ratingKey)}})}}’)”

onSelect=“atv.loadURL(‘{{URL(:::PlexConnect=Play_Audio&PlexConnectCopyIx={{VAL(#copy_ix)}}&PlexConnectPlayType=Continuous)}}’)”

onHoldSelect=“scrobbleMenu(‘{{URL(key:::includeRelated=1&PlexConnect=Music_TrackRedirect)}}’)”>

My bad… continuous play to be selected with SELECT, single song with PLAY. I think we changed it on the way - to get quicker access to the “play all” feature.

When I press “Play” I just get the option
Hm. Could you please explain which option and/or starting at which menu you are seeing this?

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Hi,
here --> jailbroken ATV2 with PlexConnect. Plex server is on a Synology NAS.
I have the same problem with music. No continous playback.
If I use Select it only plays one (it also says 1 of 1) song.
I cannot use Play, as it will not respond.
I’m stuck and cannot find a solution here.
Can anyone please help me on this? Would be very nice. Thanks a lot

HJ

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ATV 2? IOS? With older versions we never found a way to do continous playback. I am not sure yet which iOS has been the skipping point… do you have Apple’s beats app?

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Hi,
and thanks for the reply.

It’s the iOS 6.5 (6105).
So this might be the problem and I understand, there is no solution?
No beats-App here.

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Sorry 6.5 (spoofed), it is really 5.3(6105). :slight_smile:

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Sorry, everything before iOS 7 seems to need the plist files for music/track selection. No documentation, no examples, hard to debug… I am pretty sure, there is a way to download playlists, or complete albums, but we never found out how.
With iOS 7, Apple added a XML version of that interface - it works much better, and with Beats there even were some examples available. :smiley: