SUMMARY The music player widget disappears after skipping a song. This is due to the default setting to only show when relevant. The underlying problems seems to be that after skipping the song, the widget thinks music has stopped, which is not the case. Further it's not possible to recover from this error state without opening the actual media player again and pause/playing the music there. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open at least two songs in VLC media player. 2. Click on the media player widget. 3. Press "N" or "P" 4. Notice how the icon shows a square, as like the music has stopped. 5. Also notice the music still playing OBSERVED RESULT Song is treated as being stopped, widget disappears. EXPECTED RESULT Song is still being treated as playing and widget stays. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: EndeavourOS KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0 Qt Version: 5.15.9 Kernel Version: 6.1.25-1-lts (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11
Cannot reproduce in Plasma 5.27.4 with VLC and multiple songs in it when pressing the "n" key in the widget. Does this happen with any other audio players? For example a playlist of music in YouTube or some songs in Elisa?
Oh, I missed a step: Before 3. you need to have paused and resumed the music at least once ("space" key). With elisa I was not able to reproduce this bug.
Hmm, still cannot reproduce the issue with VLC even after I pause the music with the spacebar from the widget at least once.
Created attachment 158459 [details] Bug_Video Hmm, I have added a short screencast to show my problem. Is there any more debugging or information I could include?
On my Arch Linux the Media Player applet hides itself in the system tray and it looks like nothing is playing after the provided steps. Possibly duplicate of bug 398967
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 398967 ***
Good catch!