Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: amarok
Amarok sometimes hangs during playback (music stops playing, but systray
icon still displays 'play' sign).
I am using 1.4.5-0ubuntu2~edgy1 from kubuntu.org repository on Edgy
(Gnome) because of another bug, but the problem appeared also with
1.4.3-0ubuntu10 and all the other versions before since at least Dapper.
I use the xine engine.
The behaviour changed a bit for 1.4.5 so I describe for both versions:
1.4.3:
Playback stops as described.
When hovering over the systray icon the tooltip about the current song appears
normally and the current song time displayed after "Length:" does not change
anymore.
When right-clicking on the icon, the menu gets displayed.
When clicking stop, most of the time the application hangs completely. Instead
of the play sign a gray rectangle is displayed and I have to "killall
amarokapp" after which I can start amarok again.
But sometimes, after clicking on "Stop" the application returns to normal
stopped state and I can directly start playing another (or the same) song again.
There seems to be no pattern as to which behaviour will occur, although the
complete hangup is more frequent.
1.4.5:
Same behaviour as 1.4.3 until I click on Stop in right-click menu.
Amarok returns to stopped mode and seems to work normally.
But when I want to play again Amarok hangs completely with the small gray
rectangle instead of a play sign in systray icon.
This all seems completely random to me, seemingly not depending on the
song playing or anything else. It occurs about every 5 hours on average,
sometimes more often, sometimes less often. Sometimes it seems to me to
occur more often when there is heavy network traffic (eg. Azureus
running), but not sure.
If you need more info I'm happy to provide it. If you want me to do
something when it hangs the next time, I can try that.
** Affects: amarok (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Amarok sometimes hangs during playback and has to be killed
https://launchpad.net/bugs/93139
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