Regression Alert: Change in Playback Behavior

Mark Kretschmann kretschmann at kde.org
Wed Jan 5 14:32:33 CET 2011


On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I just remembered that we have one regression left that I find very
> major. The regression is:
>
> Amarok will no longer start to play a track automatically, if the
> track is appended to the Playlist, and Amarok is paused.
>
> This is a major change, because all earlier Amarok 2.x version behaved
> differently. Personally I find it really annoying, and I think we must
> definitely fix this before releasing. I have briefly talked to Rick
> about this, and he explained that this change was not really a
> regression, but an attempt at fixing an issue with Dynamic Playlists.
> Still, I think the consequences of this change are too major to simply
> overlook them. IMHO we need to revert this commit, or special-case it
> so that it only affects the specific issue with Dynamic Playlists
> (which I have no idea about).

*bump*

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Mark Kretschmann
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