Shuffle + repeat + two-track playlist results in buggy behavior
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Rhythmbox |
Fix Released
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Low
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| rhythmbox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
Bug: When there are only two tracks in a playlist and both shuffle and random are enabled, Rhythmbox can have buggy behavior when the next button is pressed. If I am playing track A and press next, sometimes Rhythmbox will highlight track B, replace track A's name at the top with track B's, but Rhythmbox will play track A again instead. I suspect that Rhythmbox's random song chooser allows for the possibility of a song playing twice in a row, which is fine, but this bug deals with Rhythmbox visually looking like it's playing one track when it's audibly playing another.
To reproduce, turn on shuffle and repeat in the options menu. Then open a playlist with two tracks (or use the browser to narrow a playlist to two tracks). Play a song in that playlist, and then press next until the bug occurs. (The bug seems to randomly occur, but it's often enough that it should occur without too many tries.)
| Jeffrey Knockel (jeff250) wrote | #1 |
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in rhythmbox: | |
| assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Needs Info |
| Jeffrey Knockel (jeff250) wrote | #3 |
| Tim Retout (diocles) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in rhythmbox: | |
| status: | Unknown → Unconfirmed |
| Jeffrey Knockel (jeff250) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in rhythmbox: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Fix Released |
| Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in rhythmbox: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | Needs Info → Fix Committed |
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #7 |
| Changed in rhythmbox: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Changed in rhythmbox: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Low |
I just noticed this happening with a three-track playlist too, except much more rarely, so I tried it with a six-track playlist, and it happened more rarely yet. Maybe Rhythmbox _is_ supposed to have some safe-guard to prevent a song from being played twice in a row, except it isn't working quite right? If so, it looks like it manages to select a different song and display its text at the top, but then it just plays the previous song again anyways.