Bug 190013

Summary:	Amarok skipping tracks in playlist
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Rob Hasselbaum <rob>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Amarok Bugs <amarok-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	alex.merry, bugzzzz, danni.coy, kde, michal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.0.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Rob Hasselbaum 2009-04-19 01:19:49 UTC

Version:           2.0.2 (using 4.2.2 (KDE 4.2.2), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.28-11-generic

When playing through multiple tracks from my local collection in the playlist, Amarok will sometimes start to play the first second or so of a track, but will then skip to the next track unexpectedly. Steps to reproduce:

(1) Drag an album from my collection to the playlist.
(2) Start playing first track.

When the first track ends, Amarok will play the first second of track 2, but will then skip to track 3 for no reason. It is not consistent--happens about 50% of the time. And if I double-click back on track 2, it will play normally. All tracks are standard MP3s.

The only thing "unusual" about my setup is that I'm running Kubuntu and Amarok from a USB drive (beta-testing Kubuntu Jaunty), and my music collection resides on my laptop's internal hard drive. Shouldn't matter, but thought I'd mention it.

Comment 1 Mark Kretschmann 2009-04-19 08:04:15 UTC

The Plasma "Now Playing" desktop widget is known to make Amarok skip tracks. 

Remove it from your desktop for now.

Comment 2 Matt Whitlock 2009-05-03 19:03:58 UTC

Aha!  Whew, I'm glad I found this bug report, though I had to wade through almost a hundred "works for me"/"invalid" bug reports about Amarok skipping every other track before I found it.  I really don't think all these bug reports are from people with broken distros or broken libraries or broken Phonon, as the Amarok devs keep saying.

It seems like Amarok is advancing to the next track in response to two different events that don't always occur simultaneously.  Like after it's already started playing the second track, it gets a late notification that the first track finished playing and advances again to the third track.

I do notice variation in the amount of time Amarok plays the track before it skips it.  Sometimes it's only a small fraction of a second, so I don't even hear it, and other times it approaches a couple of seconds.

Comment 3 Alex Merry 2009-05-31 12:58:12 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 189265 ***

Comment 4 Alex Merry 2009-05-31 12:58:32 UTC

*** Bug 189788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Alex Merry 2009-05-31 12:58:42 UTC

*** Bug 194644 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 christian chevalier 2009-10-15 10:20:52 UTC

I have no "Now Playing" widget on my desktop and the problem occurs

Comment 7 Alex Merry 2009-10-15 17:31:30 UTC

@christian chevalier:

In that case, you are experiencing a different bug.  Please file a separate bug report, stating that you don't have a now playing widget on your desktop.  Please also say what Phonon backend you are using (go to the Multimedia section in system settings and click on the Backends tab to find out).