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"resume playback" suddenly starts at beginning of playlist instead of whre I was

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fredex:
I've downgraded Rockbox on my Fuze v2 from 3.13 to 3.9.1, which is what I ran on it for a couple years before being updated to 3.13.

I can't recall exactly when this problem first came to my attention, but I apparently did the 3.9.1==>3.13 upgrade in Jan of '14, and I certainly never had the problem before that.

So, now with 3.9.1 back on the player, I've shut down and done "resume playback" 8 or 10 times and so far it always resumes in the right place. (Using the same playlist and SD card on which it was routinely failing on 3.13, yesterday.)

So, whatever is causing it, it looks as if it's due to something that changed after 3.9.1.

I may do a binary search thru old versions to see if I can pin down the exact point.

fredex:
I've got 3.11.2 on the  Fuze now, and haven't been able to make it fail. I've been starting and stopping it several times a day for the last four (or so) days, with zero failures.

So, if there's any developers reading this: How else can I help to find/solve this problem? The fuze is now old and has a flaky headphone jack, and I have a new Clip  Zip, so I can spare the Fuze, shouuld someone want to use it to troubleshoot (assuming I'd get it back someday).

Any further ideas, or any takers on my offer?

Now, as I said, I've got a new Zip Clip, which exhibits the same problem, running 3.13. unfortunately, I can't fall back to 3.11.2 on the Clip Zip since 3.13 is the only stable release on offer. This gives me some impetus to help solve the issue.

thanks in advance!

saratoga:
Assuming you aren't intending to fix it yourself, you could suggest a way for someone else to reproduce the problem. Otherwise no one else is going to look at it.

fredex:
well, I could try slogging thru the code to see if I could even find the place(s) that deal with bookmarking and restarting. Is there, perhaps, a document somewhere that gives some intro to the organization of the source code?

I attempted to give you all the details of how it was happening, but since you couldn't reproduce it, it seemed to me that since Ihave two players, both of which illustrate(d) the problem, I could send you (or someone) one of them so you could see it happening.

I understand it's an open-source project, and nobody has to do anything for me. So, I was trying to be helpful to the extent I could. My apologies if it seemed otherwise.

saratoga:
I don't think you need to look at the code; I'm just suggesting that you massively improve the odds of someone being able to help you if you can suggest a way to reproduce the problem. 

Edit:  Sorry, to not answer your other question.  Some very general information is available in this wikipage:  http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/ContributingToRockbox

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