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Gustavo Winter
Courses Plus Student 27,382 PointsI can't understand what is wrong with my "previusButton"
Hi, i try to improove the playlist of the course "Object-Oriented JavaScript" but i make a mistake and i can't see what it is.
My code is here, on my snapshot.
Please, if you can explain me where and why is wrong, i'll appreciate.
Thanks.
2 Answers

Steven Parker
215,954 PointsYou didn't describe the problem.
But I noticed that when you try to use "previus" on the first item, it tries to wrap around but goes to an undefined index. Here's a corrected snippet from Playlist.prototype.previus;
if(this.nowPlayingIndex < 0) {
this.nowPlayingIndex = this.songs.length - 1; // the last index is one LESS than the length
}
Gustavo Winter
Courses Plus Student 27,382 PointsGustavo Winter
Courses Plus Student 27,382 PointsNice, thanks.
But let me see if i really understand. "this.songs.length" is equal to 3 ( three songs). But in the array Playlist the index are 0, 1, 2. So for i acess the last song in the array e need to " - 1" because the length dont count the first item like 0 ?
Steven Parker
215,954 PointsSteven Parker
215,954 PointsYou are correct that "this.songs.length" is equal to 3, and the Playlist index can be 0, 1, or 2.
But that means to access the last song the index must be 2. An index of -1 would not be valid.
That's why when the index goes below 0, you need to reset it to "
this.songs.length - 1
" which in this case is 2. Your problem was setting it to 3, which is also not a valid index.