Play queue size limit
Posted by: John3 on 04 April 2014
I know that playlists in n-stream are limited to 500 tracks but does anyone know if the same limit applies to play queues?
I know that playlists in n-stream are limited to 500 tracks but does anyone know if the same limit applies to play queues?
another reason to use a different control point. There should be no real limit.
I know that playlists in n-stream are limited to 500 tracks but does anyone know if the same limit applies to play queues?
another reason to use a different control point. There should be no real limit.
Maybe the limit is stop people wasting their time on making ludicrously long playlists...maybe they should get out and socialise more.
Jason.
The size limit is a bit annoying, not so much the size but the fact if you choose your entire music collection and have it set to shuffle, you always seem to get the same or near enough the same 500 songs. I have over 30,000 tracks on my NAS and when I want to shuffle play the lot, I want to shuffle play the lot and not have the same 500 every day.
The code that does the track selection must be pretty inflexible.
The size limit is a bit annoying, not so much the size but the fact if you choose your entire music collection and have it set to shuffle, you always seem to get the same or near enough the same 500 songs. I have over 30,000 tracks on my NAS and when I want to shuffle play the lot, I want to shuffle play the lot and not have the same 500 every day.
The code that does the track selection must be pretty inflexible.
Whilst I generally can't stand shuffle play, with all the disconcerting jumping from one genre to the other, on occasions I'll use Apples "genius" playlists. You start with a track as a "seed" and the program will assemble a playlist along similar themes.
I think you will find the limit of the playlist/queue when using Nstream is the streamer board on the Network player, not Nstream itself. This is because Nstream loads the list into the Network player's memory.
When the streaming boards were updated early on in Naim streamer timeline, the playlist memory doubled.
The alternate is to use a controller that pushes one file at a time to the player, and clearly here there will be no Naim limit.
Simon
Which controllers push one song at a time rather than load the playlist?
There have been conflicting reports on here for JRiver and whether it pushes single songs or loads the whole playlist.
Has anyone successfully run a playlist longer than 500 songs? I don't really want to have to install and try out multiple players to find out if someone has already discovered a solution.
I have Bubble UPnP on my Android phone and that can push the entire collection in shuffle.
@Simon, thank you for that information.
@Winky, I quite like (mostly!) the jump from genre to genre but the 'next track' button is never far away!
I'm not sure the Apple solution you use will apply to me as my music is all in FLAC on my NAS.
I may investigate Synology's build in media server and Audio Station to see what they offer. Audio Station supports smart playlists based on artists and perhaps genre too. It also has a random 100 shuffle.