Bug 196705

Summary:	Missing visual feedback when buffering radio stations
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Thomas Tanghus <thomas>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Amarok Bugs <amarok-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	glua, paul.f.fee
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.8.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Thomas Tanghus 2009-06-16 03:10:30 UTC

Version:           2.1 (using 4.2.90 (KDE 4.2.90 (KDE 4.3 Beta2)), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.28-11-generic

When listening to radio stations eg. mms://wmscr1.dr.dk/e02ch01m it often takes a long time before it actually starts playing. First there is no feedback, then the OSD and then a long pause before it starts playing. It would be nice with some more visual feedback either in the OSD or the statusbar just saying "Buffering" and maybe a spinning wheel or something ;-)
I have often killed Amarok because I thought it had frozen.

Comment 1 Thomas Tanghus 2009-12-04 21:46:39 UTC

This is now better in 2.2.1. The OSD starts immediately but when it disappears the statusbar just says "Playing stream XXX" although it hasn't started playing yet.

Comment 2 Kevin Funk 2010-02-18 19:07:06 UTC

*** Bug 203236 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Simeon 2011-12-20 14:49:58 UTC

This wish has been granted.This report should be removed.

Comment 4 Thomas Tanghus 2011-12-20 15:50:49 UTC

Still waiting for 2.5 to hit Kubuntu backports ppa...

Comment 5 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-12-21 00:07:15 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> This wish has been granted.This report should be removed.

So sorry, please disregard this message, there was a misunderstanding with the
Google Code-In student.

Comment 6 Myriam Schweingruber 2014-08-14 09:35:26 UTC

Is buffering still that slow? I haven't seen that happen here lately, but I also don't use many other radio streams than a few from the cool streams...

Comment 7 Thomas Tanghus 2014-08-14 13:50:59 UTC

(In reply to Myriam Schweingruber from comment #6)
> Is buffering still that slow? I haven't seen that happen here lately, but I
> also don't use many other radio streams than a few from the cool streams...

Normally it's very fast, but for slower connections or streams I still think it would be a good idea to have some kind of visual feedback.

Comment 8 Myriam Schweingruber 2014-08-14 16:04:50 UTC

Thank you for the fast feedback.