User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.10 Chromium/17.0.963.79 Chrome/17.0.963.79 Safari/535.11 Build Identifier: If I'm listening to an audio stream (e.g. bassdrive.com) and decide to change to a different stream (e.g., some SomaFM one), when I double-click the other stream in my playlist, the first stream stops playing, and nothing happens. If I try again, I hear a split second of the second stream, but then it stops immediately. My only recourse has been to completely quit Amarok and re-launch it when I want to change streams. This was going on under Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit and now 11.10 64-bit. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Under Media Sources, double-click Internet, then Cool Streams, then Bassdrive [Drum n' Bass]. Notice music begins playing. 2.Now double-click SomaFM - Groove Salad [Chill-Out] to add that stream to the playlist. 3.Under Playlist, double-click the newly-added stream. Notice silence. 4.Double-click the newly-added stream again. Notice a split second of music, then silence. 5.Quit Amarok 6.Launch Amarok 7.Double-click the newly-added stream once more. Notice the music plays. Actual Results: (See "Notice" parts of "Steps to Reproduce".) Expected Results: At step 3, the new stream should have began playing.
Which phonon backend do you use? You can check that in the Settings menu -> Configure Amarok -> Playback -> Configure Phonon. From your description I guess you use the gstreamer backend of which this is a known bug. Please either upgrade to the latest version 4.6.0 of that backend or use the phonon-backend-vlc instead.
Correct, it was using the gstreamer backend, and that was the only choice available. I installed 'phonon-backend-vlc' package here on my Kubuntu 11.10 system, and reconfigured Amarok to use it. Unfortunately, the issue persists. :( It seems to happen the majority of the time; my initial attempt to switch from Bassdrive to SomaFM worked! Then when I tried to go back to Bassdrive, nothing. I added another stream to my playlist, and now it consistently either plays no sound, or a split second of sound, when I attempt to change streams by double-clicking them in the playlist. Thanks!
Which version of the phonon-backend-vlc do you use? Please make sure you also have the kubuntu backports PPA activated to have the latest versions.
Version: 0.4.1-1. Will try the kubuntu backports PPA and report back when I have time. Thanks!
I can't reproduce this here with the vlc backend, but I have version 0.5.0. Although I can't remember anyone reporting this behavior with the vlc backend for previous versions either.
I can reproduce it on Amarok 2.6-git
(In reply to comment #6) > I can reproduce it on Amarok 2.6-git And you are sure you did try with the phonon-backend-vlc as the previous comments suggest? William: This is most likely an issue with the phonon-backend-gstreamer. Please upgrade to Amarok 2.6 and KDE 4.8.5 or later and make sure you have at least the phonon-backend-gstreamer version 4.6.2. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 268892 ***
Upgraded to a much more recent version of Kubuntu (12.10) and it seems to work fine now. Diagnostics reports: Amarok Version: 2.6.0 KDE Version: 4.9.2 Qt Version: 4.8.3 Phonon Version: 4.6.0 Phonon Backend: GStreamer (4.6.2) PulseAudio: No