On 28/12/12 14:55, Jayesh Badwaik wrote:
Hi,
I am not a KDE Developer and do not have much knowledge about Amarok
code, but I am reading the source code now since two days, and trying to
understand it. so, please forgive me if the following is not correct.
I cannot reproduce this bug, but I remember it happened exactly **once**
on Amarok in ArchLinux some four days ago. Since then, it hasn't
happened again. It seemed as if amarok orphaned the sound playing system
and then generated another instance to play the next song. Also, I let
it play, since I had read this bug, and I noticed that while the second
track was completely synced according to the display and then the
playback was normal w.r.t to it, the first track kept looping. I could
not stop it even by quitting and stopping amarok. I killed and restarted
pulseaudio, but I think the problem might be between pulseaudio and amarok.
When I encountered this problem, I was reminded of another problem that
I am still facing[0]. And it seems to me as if there must be something
problematic in the code which handles switching of tracks which might be
related. May be in the above case, a resourced was allocated twice and
may be in the [0] case, the resource allocation fails? The problem
being a random problem suggests there must be a race condition somewhere.
And yes, the problem started occuring since Amarok 2.5 and KDE 4.8. If
Debian is backporting bug patches from KDE 4.8 or Amarok 2.5 currently,
then this might seem to be related.
--
Regards
Jayesh
[0] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296100
Thanks for your comments Jayesh.
I have since switched to Clementine which even on my ancient system -
chosen for stability - plays nice and does exactly as I want it to do.
Cheers
AG
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