Version: 2.3.1 (using KDE 4.4.3) OS: Linux Up to last version (2.3.0) when an album was added to the playlist, Amarok invariably played each song once, then stopped - which was impeccable. Now, it often happens to play again the same song that has just ended, or another one that's already played, rather than favoring tracks that haven't been played yet. Also, when all tracks have been played, it doesn't stop, but keeps playing the same songs all over again. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1 Add an album to the playlist. 2 Press play. 3 Check which tracks are being played. 4 Wait for the album to end. Actual Results: I verified that while tracks whose play count still showed at 0, others which showed 1 or 2 were being played again. Ultimately, I waited for the music to stop, but waited in vain. Expected Results: Each song from the album should play only once, then Amarok should stop. OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.32-22-generic Compiler: cc
Please remove the track progression settings you have, it's likely you have repeat track enabled.
Please have a look at this image: http://www.binaryelysium.com/images/amarok-track-prog.jpeg
Created attachment 47701 [details] Screenshot Track progression has always been set to Random Tracks, by which I mean that it remained so through the upgrade from v. 2.3.0 to 2.3.1. If before it played flawlessly the way described in my first report, then now its behavior has changed, and looks like a bug to me. In fact, I prefer to listen to my album tracks in a random order, which should not imply that tracks are repeated, let alone the whole album, or entire playlists. Please, check the screenshot.
Thank you for the feedback. Please try disabling the random track anyway, and set it again to check if it is reproducible.
When Track Progression is set to Standard, Amarok behaves as expected: tracks are played progressively, and when the playlist reaches the end, playback stops. I will leave it so, as a workaround, although for longer playlists made of different artists it may not be ideal. Thank you!
You misunderstood my question. Does the behavior return when you set to Random tracks again?
Created attachment 47719 [details] Screenshot2 Yeah, I didn't get that. I followed your guidelines, but it didn't work as expected. If you take a look at Screenshot2 you'll see what I mean: track #1, Humming, had just been played ("within the last minute"), nonetheless Amarok is playing it again. Not only that, but it's also scheduled to be the next track to be played. I know this is not the intended behavior, for I used Amarok in Random Tracks mode satisfactorily on v. 2.3.0.
Created attachment 47720 [details] Screenshot3 Screenshot3 shows that even if the playlist contains 1 track only, it'll be replayed as if in Repeat mode until stopped. I know it doesn't make sense to use Random Tracks for a single track, but my intention was to show the issue repeats regardless. If I let it play, play count just keeps adding up.
Well, in your last screenshot you set the playlist action to "Random tracks", but since there is only one track, it can only play this one. Nothing wrong about that. What counts is the one in the screenshot in comment #7 Strangely nothing was changed in that code AFAIK between 2.3.0 and 2.3.1, so no idea where this comes from. Also I tried here with current git and can't reproduce this at all.
> Well, in your last screenshot you set the playlist action to > "Random tracks", but since there is only one track, it can only play this > one. Nothing wrong about that. In my view, what's wrong about it is that the single track is being played over and over again, while it should only play once, if Repeat mode is not on. Random tracks does not imply Repeat Track, does it? At least, it didn't in the previous version.
hello! I wanted to create a new bug report but I finally found this one (it's a pity that the world "random" doesn't appear in the summary because this bug is only for this mode) I post just to say that leonardo isn't the only one to have this bug and it is quite ennoying (if you could fix it in another version...) as leonardo said: "Random tracks does not imply Repeat Track" ------------------ Overview: When you listen to music on amarok 2.3.1 with the random mode ON (and NOT the replay mode), the playlist is repeated as if the replay mode was activated too. It didn't do that in the 2.3.0 version. Steps to reproduce: activate the random mode and play one or more song. this song will be replayed and replayed to infinity. Actual results: the playlist is repeated whereas I haven't activated the replay mode, only the random one. Expected results: It should stop the music once the entire playlist has been played, as it did in v2.3.0. Build date and plateform: I had this bug since I use amarok 2.3.1 which has been compiled on "May 30 2010". I run debian sid with KDE 4.4.4
Changing to confirmed.
The new "Random implies Repeat" behaviour is as-planned, as part of an extensive refactoring / fixing of the track navigator code. See extensive discussion in this older bug report: BUG 221798 Please continue further "Repeat" discussion in that older bug report. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 221798 ***
About the "Recently-played song is replayed again" issue: Short answer: stick to the standard "Favor = None" setting. For background and further discussion, use this separate bug report (which I've just made): BUG 244442