Package: amarok Version: 2.1.1-1 Severity: important Hello,
I tried out Amarok 2.1.1 from experimental (but reverted back to 1.4 due to bugs #534392 and #534393, and the missing playback queue), and as mentioned in #534392, the gstreamer phonon backend doesn't work well with amarok. But amarok doesn't tell me that, it just skips the songs, and after ~10 songs shows a "Too many errors encountered in the playlist. Playback stopped." message. This is a) not helpful, and b) wrong. What am I supposed to do with this message? The playlist looks ok to me, lots of songs from my hd, exactly what I want to play. And amarok made the playlist itself (using the random playlist), why would it be corrupted? So, the message doesn't tell me the real problem. The real problem is not the playlist, but something else. Maybe the file, but I know those play in other apps. Sound output? I've configured phonon to use the gstreamer backend, and the 'test' button plays its sound, so I have to suppose that's also not the problem. At this point all I can do is google the error message, and it tells me, it is a problem with the backend. And lo and behold, changing to xine makes all my files play (though way louder than I want them played, due to #534393). OK. Now I know what the problem is, and how to solve it. But having to google the error message, I guess these days that's called MAJOR FAIL. And what's this "stop after 10 errors"? "Hm, can't play that file... let's not bother our users with an error, just skip to the next file ... Hm, we got 10 errors, maybe something _is_ wrong. Let's give them a totally useless message!" MAJOR FAIL. How about telling me what _exactly_ the problem is, when the _first_ file fails to play? That doesn't need to be with an error box for each file that fails, skipping to the next file isn't a bad design decision per se. But completely hiding the errors, and at some random point telling the user there were too many of them _is_. So, put the last error in the status bar, and have an easily accessible error log (one line per error that tells exactly what the problem was) for previous errors for example. That would make finding problems much easier. Best regards, Christian Ohm -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages amarok depends on: ii amarok-common 1.4.10-3 architecture independent files for ii amarok-engine-xine 1.4.10-3+b1 Xine engine for the Amarok audio p ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2 core libraries and binaries for al ii libc6 2.9-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-7 GCC support library ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.4.1-1 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.3-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgpod4 0.7.2-1 library to read and write songs an ii libifp4 1.0.0.2-3 communicate with iRiver iFP audio ii libkarma0 0.0.6-4 Rio Karma access library [runtime ii libmtp8 0.3.7-7 Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) libr ii libmysqlclient15off 5.0.81-1 MySQL database client library ii libnjb5 2.2.5-4.2 Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox librar ii libpq5 8.3.7-1 PostgreSQL C client library ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.8b-5 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libruby1.8 1.8.7.174-1 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1. ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-4+b1 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.14.2-1 SQLite 3 shared library ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtag1c2a 1.5-6 TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library ii libtunepimp5 0.5.3-7+b1 MusicBrainz tagging library ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library ii libvisual-0.4-0 0.4.0-2.1 Audio visualization framework ii unzip 6.0-1 De-archiver for .zip files Versions of packages amarok recommends: pn amarok-konqsidebar <none> (no description available) ii kdemultimedia-kio-plugins 4:4.2.4-1 transparent audio CD access for KD Versions of packages amarok suggests: pn amarok-engines <none> (no description available) ii dillo [www-browser] 0.8.6-3 Small and fast web browser ii epiphany-gecko [www-b 2.26.1-1 Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck ii iceape-browser [www-b 1.1.14-1 Iceape Navigator (Internet browser ii iceweasel [www-browse 3.0.11-1 lightweight web browser based on M ii konqueror [www-browse 4:4.2.4-1 KDE 4's advanced file manager, web ii libvisual-0.4-plugins 0.4.0.dfsg.1-2 Audio visualization framework plug ii links2 [www-browser] 2.2-1+b1 Web browser running in both graphi pn moodbar <none> (no description available) ii opera [www-browser] 9.64.2480.gcc4.qt3 The Opera Web Browser ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-2+b1 WWW browsable pager with excellent -- no debconf information -- Don't kiss an elephant on the lips today. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
