Bug 229183 - can't select random and repeat playlist
Summary: can't select random and repeat playlist
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221798
Alias: None
Product: amarok
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 2.2.2
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Amarok Developers
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Reported: 2010-03-02 23:37 UTC by Javier Gallucci
Modified: 2010-03-03 15:38 UTC (History)
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Description Javier Gallucci 2010-03-02 23:37:22 UTC
Version:           2.2.2 (using 4.3.4 (KDE 4.3.4), Debian packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.32-trunk-686

In Amarok 2.2.2 I can't select repeat playlist and random order at the same time, I just can select one, but in amarok 1 I could select both options, repeat the playlist and randomly play.
Comment 1 Javier Gallucci 2010-03-02 23:43:40 UTC
In Amarok 2.2.2 I can't select repeat playlist and random order at the same
time, I just can select one, but in amarok 1 I could select both options,
repeat the playlist and randomly play.
Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-03-03 10:08:09 UTC
This actually never worked in Amarok 2.x, and Amarok 1.4 was a completely different codebase, so please do not compare

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 221798 ***
Comment 3 Javier Gallucci 2010-03-03 14:33:58 UTC
I'm not asking is ever worked in amarok 2.x, I'm just saying if Amarok 1 had that opstions, why amarok 2 doesn't, is a great tool, that you can repeat the entire list and play it in random order, no or play in random order or repeat the list. And please if you no go to say something mmmm constrctive, don't let us know your opinion. Good luck team KDE Rock.
Comment 4 Javier Gallucci 2010-03-03 14:38:07 UTC
mmm so is a bug, rare i search for it and nothing result, well better to me, is a real bug I was start thinking that I was wrong and ths is not a bug. Wel I hope in future versions Amarok 2 will have these features.
Comment 5 Nikolaj Hald Nielsen 2010-03-03 15:38:38 UTC
Copy pasted from my reply to Bug 221798:

prior to 2.2.1 we had the _option_ to specify random and repeat modes
separately. The only issue was that internally in Amarok only one of the mode
would ever actually be active at once, so in essence the ui was lying.

The big issue here as I see it is that many combinations of random and repeat
simply makes no sense at all. For instance, what would "repeat track" + "random
<something>" do? The simple solution here is to simply ignore the random mode,
but if both are specified in the ui, this is being dishonest to the user.

And what about "random album" + "repeat album"?

You could argue that "random track" + "repeat album" might make sense (I think
this is a bit of a corner case that can be handled using playlist shuffling if
really needed), but other than this, the only thing that really makes sense is
"random <something>" + "repeat playlist".

So I am not opposed to allowing "repeat playlist" to be active at the same time
as a random mode, but other than that I really don't think it makes any sense
to combine the modes.