The GUI allows a choice between random playback and repeat playback. These options should not be mutually exclusive; i.e. I should be able to shuffle songs and repeat (random order and repeat when I get to the end of the playlist). Reproducible: Always
(In reply to comment #0) > I should be able to shuffle songs and repeat (random order and repeat when I get to > the end of the playlist). Actually, this is the current behaviour AFAICS, the playback never stops in Random Tracks/Albums mode here. Or did you mean something different?
That's odd... it plays randomly then stops when it has played all the songs for me. I use the "Random Tracks" mode.
I use current git version, perhaps the behaviour changed since then? I don't recall any commit mentioning it. Would you be able to use development version? Howto is at http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2009/09/compiling-amarok-from-git-locally-full-summary/
I was just doing some more testing and I don't think the problem is what I described.. it stops playing for no apparent reason. I thought it was because it reached the end of the playlist, but it looks like something else. Is there any way (a log?) to see why it stopped playing? If I press the Play button, it still won't play until I double click on a song in the playlist.
Known problem, workaround is to switch to phonon-vlc, see bug 296100. Thanks for being a very attentive reporter. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 296100 ***
I'm not sure this is the same problem. More testing has revealed the problem is when it encounters an item in the playlist where the underlying file no longer exists (e.g. if I moved the file to another folder or deleted it. Would better behaviour be to skip invalid items (i.e. missing files) and continue to the next item in the playlist?
(In reply to comment #6) > Would better behaviour be to skip invalid items (i.e. missing files) and > continue to the next item in the playlist? Yes, Amarok should behave like that and does not, this is a bug, I can reproduce with v2.7.0-348-g480ca9f. Thanks again for being attentive.
Okay, I've tested it, it happens only with phonon-gstreamer, not with phonon-vlc, which correctly skis to next track. It also is not specific to random play mode. Reassigning to pgst.
(In reply to comment #8) > Okay, I've tested it, it happens only with phonon-gstreamer, not with > phonon-vlc, which correctly skis to next track. It also is not specific to > random play mode. Reassigning to pgst. I switched to phonon-vlc, but it still just stops when it encounters the invalid track. Attaching configuration screenshot.
Created attachment 80223 [details] Backend config
Is this still valid with phonon-backend-gstreamer version 4.7.2 or later?
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