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mentis replied on May 06, 2009 13:59 to the problem "Playback Stops Intermittently" in Songbird:

I am happy to report that since switching to version 1.2.0a build 1070, I have not encountered this problem. I wanted to use it for a few days to make sure. Incidentally, Songbird is a little more responsive now too when switching between tracks altogether.

Get the latest build to fix this issue here... http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Develope...

mentis replied on April 29, 2009 16:40 to the problem "Playback Stops Intermittently" in Songbird:

Just FYI, I was able to figure out additional information for this and have already added it to the bug report. It would appear that this is indeed related to the song's sample rate.

The playback stops when Songbird tries to play the next song and it has a different sample rate than the previous. So, since most of my songs (and most people's) are at 44.1 Khz, this only occurs when Songbird switches to a song at 48 or 22 in my library (which are the only other two sample rates I have).

I'll be testing the new nightly build to see if the problem persists...

A comment on the problem "Playback Stops Intermittently" in Songbird:

Ah okay, I gotcha now... thanks ^_^... – mentis, on April 19, 2009 04:03

A comment on the problem "Playback Stops Intermittently" in Songbird:

Link seems to work for me... I used a shortener... – mentis, on April 19, 2009 02:52

mentis replied on April 18, 2009 23:18 to the problem "Playback Stops Intermittently" in Songbird:

Okay, so I submitted a bug report. Hopefully I did it right. If anyone else whose got this problem would also like to comment on the report, and thus demonstrate that it's more than just an isolated case, please do so after the report shows up in this list... http://bit.ly/Kg4gO

mentis replied on April 14, 2009 16:05 to the question "Playbacks stops while playing from Network Media" in Songbird:

I seem to be having the same problem, but not related to using network media. I believe this has nothing to do with your drive setup, as I am experiencing an identical issue... http://gsfn.us/t/4q35

No idea what's causing this, but it's pretty annoying indeed! Appears to be a problem with Songbird itself...

mentis replied on April 13, 2009 18:05 to the problem "Playback Stops Intermittently" in Songbird:

Okay, so I was able to confirm that playback does stop at the end of an album if Shuffle is not turned on.

When I get to the and of the last song from a particular album, Songbird will stop playing once it tries to play the next album's song. But again, this only happens when Shuffle is off. If I have Shuffle enabled, it seems to stop at random times.

mentis replied on April 11, 2009 15:34 to the problem "Playback Stops Intermittently" in Songbird:

Yes indeed ^_^. I have it set to Repeat All, and often times on Shuffle. But now that you mention it, I seem to recall that when it first happened I wasn't using Shuffle.

At that time it would stop at the end of an album, which incidentally my library was sorted by album then. Currently however, I've been listening to music in Highest Rated view and on Shuffle. In this case the stops seem pretty random.

mentis reported a problem in Songbird on April 10, 2009 17:49:

Playback Stops Intermittently

When I let Songbird just play, every once in a while when it changes to a new song it will stop Playback. Clicking on the Play/Pause button has no effect.

The only remedy is to skip to a different song, or to double click a song in the list. There doesn't seem to be much consistency as to when this happens, and is not triggered by any song in particular.

Using Win XP Pro SP2, with newest version of Songbird (1.1.2). Anybody else having this issue?

A comment on the problem "PostRank Widget Text Formatting Issue" in PostRank:

Great ^_^. Thank you very much. And if you there are options for changing the colors, as mentioned above... that would be nice too. Not a big priority though ^_^. – mentis, on March 06, 2009 16:40

mentis replied on March 06, 2009 15:51 to the problem "PostRank Widget Text Formatting Issue" in PostRank:

That would be great... so would that go together with the above posted code, or in a separate section? If you wouldn't mind posting the code for this, that would be greatly appreciated!

Also, since were here, are there also options for changing the background and text colors using code, for the ratings and the widget title? Reason I ask, is primarily because of the background colors for those items not quite being what I would like (especially in IE).

Here's an image of what I mean...

mentis replied on March 06, 2009 15:33 to the problem "PostRank Widget Text Formatting Issue" in PostRank:

Yeah, that would be nice too ^_^...

mentis replied on January 17, 2009 23:13 to the question "PostRank Only Goes Back 9 Months" in PostRank:

Ah, I didn't think of that ^_^. Thank you very much again! I'll try to make this work on the feedburner side...

mentis marked one of Melanie Baker's replies in PostRank as useful. Melanie Baker replied to the question "PostRank Only Goes Back 9 Months".

mentis replied on January 17, 2009 21:28 to the problem "PostRank Widget Text Formatting Issue" in PostRank:

Thank you... yes that would be handy for more seamless integration... for us less coding savvy folk ^_^.

mentis asked a question in PostRank on January 17, 2009 21:04:

PostRank Only Goes Back 9 Months

I noticed that PostRank only goes through about nine months worth of posts on my blog at www.mentisworks.org, but I wasn't sure if this is how it's supposed to work. I know that there are other posts which essentially were "more popular" in the past, as opposed to what PostRank puts as the top posts.

So my questions are (1) is this a feature or a problem/bug, and (2) what can I do to include all of my blog's posts. Thank you!

mentis marked one of Ilya Grigorik's replies in PostRank as useful. Ilya Grigorik replied to the problem "PostRank Widget Text Formatting Issue".

mentis replied on January 17, 2009 20:56 to the problem "PostRank Widget Text Formatting Issue" in PostRank:

Awesome! Thank you very much, I really appreciate it ^_^. That took care of it, and if I knew more about using CSS code I might have been able to figure it out on my own.

I don't suppose there's a place with documentation of additional code that can be used to change the look of this widget?

mentis replied on January 17, 2009 16:15 to the problem "PostRank Widget Text Formatting Issue" in PostRank:

I was using the unstyled code, so as to integrate into the visual theme of my blog better.

mentis reported a problem in PostRank on January 17, 2009 04:43:

PostRank Widget Text Formatting Issue

Trying to get the PostRank widget working properly on www.mentisworks.org, and I'm having a text formatting issue. The "create a custom rss feed" text is pushed towards the right side, and I'm not sure how to fix that. Any code I can add to remedy the problem?