Dynamic Playlist Media Duration

[isaacwross]

We have a “Random” layout for uncategorized media library postings. It’s a simple layout with a single Sub Playlist widget that includes a single dynamic playlist; also called “Random”. This dynamic playlist pulls in anything from the media library tagged “random”.

We set this up so business users could display event photos or simple announcements without having to mess about with layout designs or scheduling - all they have to do is upload media, tag it, and optionally specify an expiry date.

It’s working mostly as expected, but I noticed that image content displays for 10 seconds regardless of the duration specified in the media library when I preview the layout. PDFs display for the duration specified.

Is this a bug, or am I missing something? We’re a Cloud customer, so I can raise a support ticket if you need to take a look at our instance.

[isaacwross]

Nevermind - just found this…

Issue: Duration for Items in Dynamic Playlist does not change once set.

[dan]

Thanks for bringing that back to my attention, i’m not sure why that was pushed out to version 3 as we ought to be able to solve at least 50% of that sooner (the initial assignment using the library duration).

Reassessment should also be possible, although perhaps slightly more complicated as we’d need to compare the existing and library duration each time - again ought to be do-able.