[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 771249] Re: FFE request to disable gapless playback by default in Banshee

[Chris Rowson]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 768509 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/768509

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 768509
   Sound menu shows last song instead of the current played music of Banshee
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Title:
  FFE request to disable gapless playback by default in Banshee

Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: banshee

  I realize it might be a bit too late for a Feature Freeze Exception,
  but I'll make my case anyway. :)

  Gapless Playback causes some frustrating issues in Banshee.  It was
  discussed upstream that this feature would be disabled before the
  Banshee 2.0 release if some of these bugs were not fixed[1], but
  unfortunately, that never happened.  A short synopsis of the issues:

  Gapless playback marks a song as 'played' at the beginning and end of
  the song.  This means that the play count is incremented twice[2], and
  the song is scrobbled to Last.fm twice[3].  Gapless also breaks
  last.fm radio streaming by stopping playback after the second song[4].
  But the issue that really prompted this FFE is the fact that gapless
  playback is also responsible for Banshee's broken integration with the
  Ubuntu sound menu[5], which displays the wrong song when gapless is
  enabled.

  When you add these flaws together, that's a pretty heavy price to pay
  for a gapless feature that may not actually work anyway[6].  I realize
  this is late notice -- the issue with the sound menu was just reported
  a couple days ago and just linked to the gapless feature this morning
  -- but if there's any way this feature could be disabled before Ubuntu
  Natty, I think it would definitely improve the user experience.

  [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638943
  [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621222
  [3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617620
  [4] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612929
  [5] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648498
  [6] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647975