Version: 2.0.2 (using KDE 4.2.1) OS: Linux Installed from: SuSE RPMs The song plays for less than a second before skipping to the next track in the playlist. Sometimes it only skips one song and other times it skips two or three before successfully playing an entire song. Skipped songs play normally if you go back using the previous track button.
I had the exact same problem 1-2 weeks ago but it's gone now. I don't know how it got fixed... I'm thinking some phonon or xine updates, but definitely not an amarok update.
Yeah, doesn't sound like an Amarok bug per se. Probably a Phonon issue, or something in one of the libraries it uses. You could call it an UPSTREAM or DOWNSTREAM issue, it's hard to tell.
*** Bug 187594 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
should this not be re-assigned to phonon or how are they going to know that there is something to fix?
I'm also experiencing this with Gentoo ~amd64, KDE 4.2.1, Amarok trunk and Phonon 4.3.1 . I upgraded Phonon to trunk (via Gentoo-ebuilds in the kde-testing overlay), but this didn't change anything. Xine-lib is 1.1.16.2 and thus the most current release. I tried updating xine-lib to trunk via an ebuild, but this caused all video and audio playback to stop working, so I downgraded again. I also tried to use the gstreamer-phonon-backend but I couldn't manage to make it play anything. (In reply to comment #1) > I had the exact same problem 1-2 weeks ago but it's gone now. > I don't know how it got fixed... I'm thinking some phonon or xine updates, but > definitely not an amarok update. What versions of Phonon/xine are you using now?
BTW: I found out that it's not all that random. It seems to depend on which song was playing. Only when some certain songs are finished playing atleast the next one (sometimes two) track is _always_ skipped. This seems to be 100% reproducible for this songs.
*** Bug 187668 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Has any Phonon (or something else) bug been filed for this?
For me it happens to the same song, reproducibly, not randomly. Skipping to it by clicking on "next track" does not show this behaviour if I remember correctly.
bug 187594 has some amarok debug output that shows what it gets told by the engine, i.e. why it skips to the next song.
As I said, I had this exact same problem some weeks ago, but it solved by itself somehow. Here's what I have installed: - xine-lib 1.1.16.2 - phonon 4.3.1 - phonon-kde trunk - kde trunk - amarok trunk Gentoo amd64 using the kde-testing overlay, but I compile amarok manually.
Do I remember correctly that this worked with KDE 4.2.0? If so the regression was introduced by KDE 4.2.1 and the phonon that came with it. amarok trunk does not fix this, neither does phonon 4.3.1 or xine 1.1.16.2, so I guess it's somewhere in kde's phonon code.
*** Bug 188002 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 188022 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Anyone using the "nowplaying" plasmoid. Either removing the latter or the update to todays svn revision seems to have fixed the issue.
If my findings are correct, this bug can be marked as INVALID since it is not phonon causing this and the plasmoid doing so was apparently fixed for 4.2.2.
Since upgrade to KDE 4.2.2 I haven't experienced this bug anymore. I don't have the "buggy" playlist saved anymore so it doesn't necessarily mean that it's fixed, but it seems to be. I suggest marking this bug as fixed and filing new bug only in case someone comes across with this behavior again.
This problem was caused by the "Now Playing" desktop widget and is fixed in KDE 4.2.2.
This is not fixed in 4.2.2 unless the 4.2.2 kdeplasma-addons package from openSUSE does not contain the 4.2.2 branch of the nowplaying plasmoid. Yet it is not an amarok bug so if there is no plasma bug for this yet I'll file one.
Bug is also still present for me with Gentoo and KDE 4.2.2 (and with the now-playing-plasmoid).
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Why is this bug closed? I just experienced this problem with the Now Playing plasmoid on KDE 4.2.2, compiled from sources on Gentoo.
Because this bug is about amarok and the bug is not in amarok. You would have to file a bug against the now playing plasmoid.