Progress bar problem with 0.9w-5

[Eric]

Another observation in 09w-5. Perhaps memory management related as well ?
When I play in unattended mode and I open XXHE again to move the progress slidebar at the bottom to a new position withing the track, l experience unexpected behaviour. It used to work quite comfortable in previous versions.
Cheers, Eric.

[PeterSt]

Hey Eric, thanks. I did not observe this, while extexsively using it at testing other things ...
What kind of files do you experience this with (WAV, FLAC, MP3, samplerate/bitdepth) ? One example is enough.
And what happens ?

Peter

[Eric]

Peter,
the situation occurs when I play vanilla WAV files (I haven't tested CUE files yet).
What happens if I reopen XXHE during Unattended playback is that the pointer in the slidebar shows the current position of the file playing, however the pointer is not moving.. When I move the pointer manually, it automatically resumes its start position. And after a short pause, the music continues where it stopped.
NOTE I was monitoring Windows Task Management - Physical Memory. It is showing a dip in memory allocation at the time of this event.
I hope this helps.
Cheers, Eric.

[PeterSt]

When I move the pointer manually, it automatically resumes its start position.

Without pressing any button ? nah ...
or ?

And after a short pause, the music continues where it stopped.

And it stopped because of what ?
I'm afraid you forget something to tell here. But what, I don't know ...

If you move the cursor, afaik nothing happens. Not if playing was unattendedly and you just brought up XX and then move the cursor. You must be clicking something else in between ...

If you bring up XX, move the cursor, and press Play, music continues where you put the cursor. At least that's how its meant to be, and that is how I think it works. But that is not what you seem to do ...

[Eric]

Okay Peter, let me try again. Here is the sequence of events.
I bring up XXHE while playing Unattended..
I move the cursor with the mouse to the slidebar pointer.
I leftclick the mouse and drag the cursor+pointer 2cm to the right by holding the left mousebutton down. At soon as I start doing this, the music stops.
Now I release the mouse. The pointer jumps to the left (beginning of the slide bar) and the music resumes playing from the point where it was originally interrupted.

If I perform the same operation not in Unattended mode, the music starts from the new location (instead of the original one). Just like I wanted it do do. It follows my intuition.

It feels like bringing up XXHE takes a snapshot of the position but without really transfering control to the pointer/slidebar. If I leave the newly brought-up XXHE open until the end of the playlist, another window with XXHE appears at the closing time. So I end up with 2 copies in that case.

Cheers,
Eric.   

[Eric]

Peter,
forget my remarks about the music position, it is resumed at the right position It was an illusion. The rest of my description is right.
Eric.

[PeterSt]

It's okay Eric. Thanks.

The rest of my description is right.

which I doubt a little bitty bit.

When you drag the pointer (read : when you are dragging the pointer) the music does not stop. When you "drop" hence set the position of the pointer, then the music stops at the position where it was playing, and immediately continues at the position where you set the pointer. Note that "immediately" depends on the size of the file (part as per setting in the Settings Area). At this time XXHighEnd disappears again (only with Unattanded Playback of course).

Now I release the mouse. The pointer jumps to the left (beginning of the slide bar)

Am I correct that this is your only left problem ?
Btw, I think you are right on this, but again depending on the file (part) size plus the speed of your system, you see this happening or not (I don't).

Peter

[Eric]

Right Peter.
Is it correct that the pointer does not move in Unattended mode ? And that it does move when not in Unattended mode ? 

BTW both processor usage and memory behave very stable now. Almost all the load is taken care of by processor 1. Just very little load goes to processor 2.  I have limited the memory to 600MB and that seems to work fine so far.
Cheers and thanks,
Eric.

[PeterSt]

Is it correct that the pointer does not move in Unattended mode ?

Yep. However, everything keeps track of where playback is. E.g. bringing up XX, wait 10 seconds, and press play will restart playback at the position you last heard the music. Of course this makes no sense, but in the mean time you may have changed another parameter (like volume, "DAC Is" etc.).

Peter