[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 995009] Re: Default action for handling one file should be only playing that file

[matteo sisti sette]

How exactly do you exit Banshee and restart it?
When I close Banshee (meaning I click on the "x" on its window bar or I chose "quit" from the Media menu), it "remains" under the volume tray icon (I mean, if I click on the volume tray icon, Banshee's controls appears under the volume controller).
And if I open it again, my file system queue is never cleared. And (at least in some cases) the queue doesn't get cleared even across reboots.

Now I cleared my file system queue manually and started all over again.
I've found out how to reproduce the issue(s):

* In Nautilus, double click on file A, and wait for it to play completely and end.
* Close Banshee's window (I would expect it to exit, and forget all about the file, don't keep any queue, but whatever)
* In Nautilus, double click on file B, and wait for it to paly completely to end.
* Close Banshee's window
* In Nautilus, double click on file C, and wait for it to paly completely to end.
* Close Banshee's window
* In Nautilus, double click on file B _again_

=> observe as banshee still remembers the whole queue A,B,C, and now has
gone back to item 2 in the list which was file B.

So when B is over, it goes on with file C.

If a queue has to be managed at all, default action for double clicking
a file should be adding an instance of it at the end of the queue
regardless of whether or not another instance already exists at some
point of the queue.

(but unless some file is actually _playing_ when you double click a
file, I would rather not have any queue at all and just play it; and if
you select multiple files and hit Enter when nothing is currently
playing, I would rather have it create a queue with the selected files
than pushing them into any existing queue)....

Anyway the two certain non-opinion bugs are:
- when you open a file that had previously been open and was in the file system queue, Banshee goes back to it in the queue (and then keeps playing the queue when that file is over) instead of adding a new instance of it to the end of the queue
- file system queue is (almost?) never cleared

the second one making the first one slightly worse.

** Changed in: banshee (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

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Title:
  Default action for handling one file should be only playing that file

Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Browse a folder in Nautilus containing some audio files.

  Double click on one audio file

  Expected behavior: Banshee should play only that file and then stop.

  Observed behavior: Banshee plays that file, and then other files taken
  from some playlist made of remembered files that were played in the
  past.

  I guess the file you open is automatically added to some "default"
  playlist, or to the last used playlist or something. That is not the
  correct behavior. If the user double clicks one file he wants to play
  one file. If you select a bunch of files and hit Enter, then only
  those files should be played (one after another), not those plus some
  other that have been remembered automatically who-lknows-when without
  the user EVER asking.

  If this is the way Banshee works by design and it is considered a cool
  way of managing music files, then maybe Banshee shouldn't be the
  default player for handling files double-clicked in Nautilus.

  It's not safe to assume that every time a user needs to play an audio
  file he's going to "listen to some music".

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: banshee 2.2.1-1ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-19.33-generic 3.0.27
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-19-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat May  5 11:11:46 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: banshee
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-07 (149 days ago)

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