Re: Starting playback in the middle of a movement

[Andreas Schneider]

On 2019-12-08 21:36, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Sun, 2019-12-08 at 20:51 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > When moving the playback start marker away from the beginning of a
> > piece
> > (using the playback control), I encounter the new behaviour that
> > after
> > stating playback it takes quite a while until the actual playback
> > starts, or more precisely it seems that it plays back silently from
> > the
> > beginning of the movement and starts producing sounds when it arrives
> > at
> > the playback start marker. At least I guess that from the time it
> > takes
> > to start playing. I assume that this is a bug?
>
> I am not seeing that behaviour, and I don't think anything has changed
> for a long time in that area of the program. Are you seeing the
> messages announcing the starting and ending of playback on the console?
> I just did a few tests
>
> Denemo - MESSAGE : Starting playback
> Denemo - MESSAGE : Starting playback at 28.005368
> Here endeth a scripted playbackstarting audio playback at 56.010664
> Denemo - MESSAGE : Starting playback
> Denemo - MESSAGE : Starting playback at 56.010664
> Here endeth a scripted playbackDenemo - MESSAGE : Using channel 0
> prognum 0
> Denemo - MESSAGE : Using channel 1 prognum 0
> starting audio playback at 54.010402
> Denemo - MESSAGE : Starting playback
> Denemo - MESSAGE : Starting playback at 54.010402
> Here endeth a scripted playback
>
> I was setting the start place via the Playback Control green "|" button
> but I am getting the same immediate response with Ctrl-F5 and with
> Ctrl-Alt-Drag of the start playback marker followed by F5

When starting playback, I get the messages

Denemo - MESSAGE : Starting playback
Denemo - MESSAGE : Starting playback at 0.000000

independent of where the playback start marker is. Playback ends with
the message

Here endeth a scripted playback

Do you have a suggestion how to debug?

Andreas