Version: 2.4.0 (using KDE 4.6.2) OS: Linux Hello, [PROBLEM]: Sometimes when I play a music I can't seek it... This had happened in a lot of musics of mine, so I think this is a bug in Amarok 2.4.0 and not in my musics data... Besides, this error was not happening in Amarok 2.3.2... [WORKAROUND]: Restart the playback of the music (by double clicking or pressing stop and play buttons)... Thanks for your help, André M. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1 - Play a music 2 - Check if you see the square (it moving as the music play) that let's your seek the music in the slide - sometimes this square don't show up, and (without it) you can't seek the music Actual Results: Sometimes can seek the music with the square that indicates the actual position of the music playblack... Sometimes can't seek the music because this square don't show up to the user... Expected Results: Seek the music without needing to restart the playback - the square (that indicates the actual position of the music playback) should show up always to the user PS: This problem did not happened in Amarok 2.3.2 (that I used in Ubuntu and Kubuntu 10.10)...
If you need any of music that I have to test this issue, please email me...
This is already solved in Amarok 2.4.1, please upgrade.
Hello Myriam Schweingruber, How can I upgrade to Amarok 2.4.1? When I searched about upgrading Amarok I discovered that I needed to add a Repository that contained application in BETA stage. So, if I install Amarok by this repository, will I have problems because it's in BETA stage of development? Is there any official repository to the latest stable version of Amarok to Ubuntu? Thanks for your help, -- André Madureira Estudante do Ensino Médio
certainly not a beta, Amarok 2.4.1 is released since last Sunday, so it is in the kubuntu backports PPA, not in the beta PPA anyway. There was just no official announce yet on http://kubuntu.org The PPA you need to add is this one: https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/backports
Hello, I've installed Amarok 2.4.1 from Kubuntu Backports ppa, but the error persists like you can see in the image attached... Thanks for your help, André Madureira
Created attachment 60005 [details] Image that shows the error happening (slide circle don't show up)
(In reply to comment #5) > Hello, > > I've installed Amarok 2.4.1 from Kubuntu Backports ppa, but the error > persists like you can see in the image attached... > > Thanks for your help, > > > André Madureira This error still persists, but now it DON'T HAPPENS to EVERY music like it did... I could only verify this error in only two music files I have until now... It could be related to ID3 since I didn't checked the ID3 of these files like I did with the others...
This error is not related to ID3 tag info... PS: The error stops happening if the user presses the left or right arrow, making the slide show up in all music files...
Did you try changing the phonon backend you use?
How can I do it? André Madureira
What's the difference between these backends (what is a backend)? What is Phonon? Thanks for your help and sorry by the tons of questions...
Amarok doesn't handle sound itself, it lets Phonon do that, which is the framework for sound in KDE, see also http://phonon.kde.org/ There are various backends for phonon, the two recommended ones are phonon-backend-gstreamer and phonon-backend-vlc currently. You just need to install the backends, then choose the backend to use in the Amarok Menu settings -> Configure Amarok -> Playback -> Phonon configuration. Then restart Amarok and check if that solves the problem. FWIW, you can find all this information yourself by searching in the web :)
Thanks for the information and patient with my lack of knowledge... I searched the info that your provided, but I couldn't find it so well explained as you did... Thanks again :D The problem appears to be solved only when VLC Phonon backend is used... I'll test this issue with more songs to check it out... Best Regards, André M.
This issue it only happening with GStreamer Phonon backend... I can run my music files normally with both XINE and VLC backends...
PS: I'm having some problems in the playback of my music files with VLC... In the beginning of the playback some music files I can hear a noise in the sound and when I close Amarok, the sound that it was supposed to playback is clipped... IMHO, the VLC Phonon backend is not stable enough to be used as default backend... For me, XINE (that has not been developed with the efficiency of other backends) and GSTREAMER (the unique problem that this backend has is the Seek Bar) work better until now...
Well, that is not resolved, but a gstreamer backend bug then, reassigning. Please take discussion to the forum or to irc, a bug tracker is not the correct place for that. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 237298 ***
*** Bug 274426 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
my observations for this bug: - it seems reproducible on specific mp3 files which always fail to seek and others where seeking always works. Those might be mp3-encoded slightly different? maybe stereo vs joint stereo or similar issue? - the problem vanishes when switching to xine back end. Br Christian
Hello Christian, Let me clarify somethings... Possible Causes to the Problem: A information in the music is wrongly read by GStreamer Phonon Backend... You can check this because if you change the Phonon Backend to any other backend (Xine, VLC or other), this issue will disappear... It can be caused by any info like Frequency, Duration, etc that GStreamer Phonon backend can't read properly, causing this backend to misunderstand the Seek Property of these files... This problem is NOT CAUSED BY: ID3 info (I removed all ID3 from my music files and the issue continued happening), Joint Stereo (Most of my music files are in this type of MP3 and don't have this issue), Stereo (I have some music in this type that this issue don't happen) PS: This issue is happening in the newest version of Gstreamer Backend... PS²: I'm reporting this issue with Gstreamer into Launchpad and I'll put the link here... PS³: Since now, the only Phonon Backend that works properly with AMAROK and my MP3 music files is XINE... The VLC backend is having some issues in the playback of some music files (in the beginning of the file it clips the music, creating some strange sounds - like if the music has some interference in it's original melody)... Thanks for your help, -- André Madureira
This bug is marked as a duplicate of bug 237298 and therefore closed, please do not discusss things here but do this in the master bug.