[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 602597] Re: Banshee selects next track according to current view

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:58:59 -0000
Timo Laine <602597 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:

> Many thanks for the thoughtful comment, Chow Loong Jin. Although I
> disagree with the idea, I am happy to hear that at least some thought
> has been given to it. I will consider discussing the matter on the
> mailing list, but just for the sake of completeness, I will write a
> short reply here as well.
> 
> What you call counter-intuitive I consider intuitive and vice versa,
> so that is of course something to discuss; I do accept that we are not
> talking about a straightforward bug here and that the invalid status
> is therefore correct. By the way, I noticed that Apple in their
> iTunes have decided on a third option: stop playing tracks altogether
> if the user has changed the track view. I did not realize this
> before, and it has made me reconsider some aspects of my opinion.
> Generally, although not always, Apple gets these things right.

Banshee highlights in bold the playlist Banshee is playing from. The
selected playlist is the one that is displayed, however. 
> 
> I guess I would be happy with the way Banshee works if it was possible
> to program at least the play queue just to keep on advancing while I
> browsed the other tracks. (This is what iTunes does as well.) But it
> seems that the play queue has several other bugs, one of which I have
> already reported and another one that I just noticed and will report
> as soon as I understand it. The reason I stopped using the play queue
> was because it behaved in an unpredictable way, and I have not even
> been able to understand even how it should work, not to mention how it
> actually does work. I will take the matter to other forums (and other
> bug reports) so that I may find at least one way to use Banshee
> without problems.
> 

The Play Queue's intended behaviour is to play things in a queue, in
the order that they are enqueued, after which it should jump back to
the playlist it was playing from before the queue was populated. You
may configure the play queue to automatically populate itself based on
certain criteria, though.

I have noticed certain reports of erratic behaviour of the Play Queue,
but never have experienced any of them myself. Please link the reports
you mentioned here.

P.S. This really isn't what I call a short reply ;-)

-- 
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

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Banshee selects next track according to current view
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Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
Binary package hint: banshee

The method Banshee uses to select the next track to play has a problem. It does not select the next track based on what is currently playing, but based on what is currently visible in the track browser.

For example, I select Album A in the browser, and double-click the first track to start playing the album. Then, before the album is over, I browse Album B without double-clicking any tracks. The expected behavior is to continue playing Album A. However, if when a track on Album A ends I am at that moment browsing Album B, Banshee starts to play the first track of Album B.

In other words, Banshee does not seem to allow mere browsing of albums and tracks but considers it a decision on what to play next. This is of course wrong.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: banshee 1.6.1-1~lucid1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul  7 11:44:00 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee