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

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:09:41 -0000
Timo Laine <602597 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 06:57 +0000, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> 
> > Banshee highlights in bold the playlist Banshee is playing from. The
> > selected playlist is the one that is displayed, however.
> 
> Actually I find this not to be true in every situation. For example,
> right now for me Play Queue is in bold, and yet Banshee is playing a
> track from the music library. It seems Play Queue is always in bold if
> it has unplayed tracks, no matter if these tracks are actually playing
> at the moment.

Right, I really meant the playlist that Banshee will select the next
song from. You can change the bolded playlist by double clicking
(immediately switches and selects a new song), or control+double click
(switches, but waits for the currently playing song to finish before
selecting a new one from the clicked playlist).

> 
> It seems that the play queue takes priority over WYSIWYG in a somewhat
> strange way. If the play queue has unplayed tracks, you cannot make
> Banshee play an entire album in the music library just by clicking the
> album. If in such a situation you double-click an album icon in the
> browser, Banshee plays the first track of the album and after that
> switches to the play queue. And after the play queue has finished,
> Banshee then returns to play the second track of the album and from
> there on advances to the next tracks of the album until the end.
> 

That's just Banshee's way of allowing you to override the play queue,
for example, when you've already queued things but suddenly realize you
want to listen to another song first. Anyway, I don't think continuing
this conversation here will lead anywhere useful, so please bring it to
the mailing list (and repeat all your points there, to provide
context).

-- 
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

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Banshee selects next track according to current view
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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