Review Request 111512: MPRIS2: avoid updating Metadata when between tracks

[Alex Merry]

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Review request for Amarok.


Description
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MPRIS2: avoid updating Metadata when between tracks

When changing tracks, we would emit PropertiesChanged for Metadata
twice, once with mpris:trackid set to /org/kde/amarok/PendingTrack and
once with the actual new trackid (because the first time the playlist
code had not yet updated the active track).  If the track was changed
manually (not just progressing to the next one) we would often also emit
a PropertiesChanged with an empty Metadata before repopulating it.

This solves the first issue by making the signal connection for
trackChanged from EngineController queued, meaning that by the time the
MPRIS2 code gets the signal, the playlist has updated the activeTrack
and we can easily figure out the correct trackid.

It solves the second issue by ignoring the trackLengthChanged signal
when it has a meaningless value (<0), which seems to happen at some
point during track changes that are not predictable.

BUG: 321602


Diffs
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  src/dbus/mpris2/MediaPlayer2Player.cpp a633756bf558a89ba2a3db2307c0ebbc373a759b 

Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111512/diff/


Testing
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Tested using a tool that listens to the PropertiesChanged signal of the MPRIS2 interface and lists when the mpris:trackid changes.

Without the patch, I get output like
Track change: "/org/kde/amarok/Track/5739423209746661216" -> "/org/kde/amarok/PendingTrack"
Track change: "/org/kde/amarok/PendingTrack" -> "/org/kde/amarok/Track/8264712350997591513"
when the track progresses because the previous track finished, and
Track change: "/org/kde/amarok/Track/5739423209746661216" -> ""
Track change: "" -> "/org/kde/amarok/Track/8264712350997591513"
when I manually change the track (eg: by clicking "next" or by double-clicking another track).

With the patch, I only get things like
Track change: "/org/kde/amarok/Track/5739423209746661216" -> "/org/kde/amarok/Track/8264712350997591513"


Thanks,

Alex Merry

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