Bug 178124

Summary:	Playback will not resume after pause
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Patrick Jensen <patrick.jensen>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	freeoffers0, lahtela
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Example protected .wma file

Description Patrick Jensen 2008-12-19 00:52:14 UTC

Version:           2.0 (using KDE 4.1.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Amarok refuses to resume playback after a track has been paused. Pressing "play", be it from a keyboard shortcut or menu option, does not resume playback, but the track remains stuck wherever it was paused.

Skipping to the next or previous track does however work, and the next or previous track will play normally, as does the track that got stuck if you skip back to it.

This issue typically occurs once Amarok has played 4-5 tracks and seems to be connected to no track in particular and occurs both for dynamic and static playlists. The duration of a pause seems to have no impact on the issue at all. Restarting amarok suppresses the problem, but it re-appears after a few tracks.

Comment 1 Seb Ruiz 2008-12-19 08:21:59 UTC

Disclaimer: it would be very very unprofessional of us to release a product where you can't resume playback from a paused state :).

So, given this, that we haven't heard this from any other users, and that the developers can't reproduce I think it is safe to assume that it is a system configuration problem on your end.

Make sure that you are using the xine phonon backend and not gstreamer. Gstreamer is known to be quite buggy.

Feel free to reopen only if you have concrete evidence supporting that the problem might be on our side. Failing this, please try ask on our forum, the irc channel or ask your distribution for support.

Thanks

Comment 2 Patrick Jensen 2008-12-20 17:01:50 UTC

After doing some testing, I verified that this problem arises only after Amarok attempts (and invariably fails) to play a track affected by bug 176134

Comment 3 Patrick Jensen 2008-12-20 17:38:30 UTC

After additional investigation it appears that this is exclusively related to tag bug 176154, because Amarok handles an empty dummy file with 0:00 length just fine.

Comment 4 scriptjunkie 2008-12-22 21:24:31 UTC

Created attachment 29555 [details]
Example protected .wma file

Comment 5 scriptjunkie 2008-12-22 21:27:14 UTC

Sorry unrelated-unintentional attachment intended for a different bug. Feel free to delete.

Comment 6 Tatu Lahtela 2009-01-16 10:12:16 UTC

This bug appears some times after a collection rescan. Once scan is complete and I start to use Amarok, the pause will not resume as descibed in the original description. Restarting Amarok resolves the issue.

This is with Amarok 2.0.1 in Ubuntu Intrepid.

Comment 7 Mark Kretschmann 2009-01-16 11:12:40 UTC

Closing as dupe of another report. Patrick's and Tatu's comments indicate that this is a collection problem.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 176154 ***