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I have setup a Playlist Device and a WinAmp device and it plays through the playlist just fine but what I want to do is to make it repeat once it gets to the end. I don't know if there is a property for that but I can't find it. I have tried a bit at making a task that would start winamp playing again once the playlist got to the end but it doesn't seem to work.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks,
Eric

Do this:

• Create a task that has a condition to check for "Your WinAmp Device.Play List Song Number" is Equal "0".
• Add an Action to Delay for 1000 ms.
• Add an Action to change "Your WinAmp Device.A/V Status" to "Playing".

You could also add a "Repeat" property to your Playlist Device and add a test for it being set to the Task to be able to enable or disable the repeat feature.

Scott,

Thanks for the help.

I created the task but it doesn't seem to fire. I do have it enabled and the execution mode is set to "when conditions are met". If I fire it off manually then it works but if I play the last song in the playlist it doesn't fire off when the PlaylistSongNumber get reset to 0.

Eric

Verify with the "Last Execute" time for the Task that it is definitely not firing. Before I responded to your message, I created the task to make sure it worked, so it *should* work for you.

Also, make sure you have the 1 sec delay in the Task also.

Scott,

I don't doubt that it should work, you are the foremost expert on HB so I'm sure I just don't have something setup right.

I tried it again and the last executed time didn't change and the task didn't fire.

My task has:
if ('Music On Hold.Play List Song Number' is Equal '0') Then
Delaying for '1000' mili-seconds
Change 'Music On Hold.A/V Status' to 'Playing'

Thanks,
Eric

Eric,

I have no idea why the Task isn't even executing. That's strange. Check to make sure the Task isn't disabled by a Mode. I guess also double check that the WinAmp property used in the Task is actually the one changing (like if you have multiple WinAmp Devices).

Scott,

Strange but it seems to be working now and the only thing I have done is to restart HB a number of times (Unrelated to this task problem).

Eric

Hey Eric,

Are you using the playlist manager provided by HB? If you are this is how I got my Playlist to repeat, as well as a selected repeat song. Actually you can look at my post in the General on the forum "Song and Playlist repeat from a task" to see exactly what I did. I hope it help.

There will be a new option in the WinAmp Device to repeat the playlist in the next version. Also a new Playlist Property to shuffle.

Scott,

That sounds great, just what I was looking for.

James,

I will take a look at the thread you mentioned.

Eric

What about a song repeat too. And a way to forward and rewind music; as well as jump to Next, or Prev tracks so as to be controlled with a task. If you do that Scott I can throw out my script posted on the VB Script in Forum entitled "Winamp Fast Forwarding and Rewind (also Next and Prev tracks".

Thanks.

Nothing on the song repeat or FF yet.