Several issues with AutoDJ
Before reporting these as bugs, I thought I'd begin by asking about these as a question. Please get back with me if you have ideas for workarounds.
First, AutoDJ works fine if you load the songs and hit Enable. BUT the trouble begins when you Disable, to make an announcement of some sort. When re-enabling, it will play the previous song over again. One must delete it from the queue manually before pressing Enable, if the list is to be picked up where it left off. This is a bit of a nuisance.
Reading the bug list, it appears someone is planning to make AutoDJ load the next song immediately rather than wait till the last minute. This is a GOOD thing, as even if the previous song is still in the deck, it can be changed. Currently if a song is selected for the deck, it will spit it out and play something else -- most likely the first song in the queue, which will be the last song played (AGAIN!) because it has not been deleted.
Next, I've noticed that in playlists AND in the AutoDJ queue, some songs get thrown in twice. Why? I can go through the entire list and delete all the extras, but if I close MIXXX and reopen later, there will be more repeats.
What makes this even more frustrating is that I can't find any way to delete the AutoDJ queue. Between the double-song bug and the inability to arrange songs bug (reported already), I'd like to clean out the queue and start over. But I have to delete every song, one by one, which takes forever. Once cleaned out, I can reload and I can once again sort. But these problems are so bad that I cannot really add a playlist to run automatically -- better to load a few songs at a time as I wish to play them, and keep adding a few at a time as the night progresses. Not a bad way to do things, but this is truly not an automatic setup.
Please let me know if you have comments or workarounds.
BTW, I'm running an HP laptop, 64 bit, Windows 7. No MIDIs or externals, using the sound output to feed into the sound system.
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