Bug 216856

Summary: amarok plays only plays one song, then must be restarted.
Product: [Applications] amarok Reporter: Mike <mkirk>
Component: generalAssignee: Amarok Bugs <amarok-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 2.2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Mike 2009-11-30 21:01:27 UTC 
Version:           2.2.0 (using 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1), Gentoo)
Compiler:          i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.30-gentoo-r8

Amarok starts as normal. I start playing a song, it works, but after completion of that first song, the player won't play another. Manually trying to play a song at this point also fails to stat audio playback. The song is enqueed in the playlist, but no progress is made by the player; The time line cursor remains fixed at 0 seconds, as if paused, but the state of the controls shows that the player is not paused.

Restarting amarok allows me to play a song again, but identically, after that one song completes, no more music will play.

Amarok is not frozen, I can modify my play list and access menu items, but whenever you actually try to play a song (after the first), it will not start to play.
Comment 1 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-11-30 22:26:11 UTC 
Are you using the gstreamer packend ? The you are hit by bug 172372. You should use the xine backend instead.
Comment 2 Mike 2009-11-30 22:40:06 UTC 
Fixed by switching the back end from xine to gstreamer.

GOTO: settings -> configure amarok -> Playback -> sound system configuration -> configure -> backend -> prefer xine.

Thanks Myriam.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 172372 ***