Trouble with multi-cd albums in random album mode

[Siavosh Benabbas]

By the way I am using Amarok 1.4.5 on FreeBSD.

On 8/20/07, Siavosh Benabbas <sbenabas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> It seems that the Random album mode of Amarok doesn't work properly with
> albums that have more than one CD. Instead of first playing all the tracks
> from the _first_ CD and then continuing with the second CD, it first plays
> the first track of the first CD then jumps to the first track of the
> _second_ CD and then jumps back to the first track of the first CD thus
> looping on these two tracks and ignoring the rest of the play list.
>
> The following is a faulty setup (copied from the link [2]):
> I own a 2 CD album.  I've ripped the track and correctly tagged them.  In
> particular, the first song on the first CD has tags like: { 'Track' =>
> '1', 'Album' => 'My Album Title', 'Disc Number' => '1' } and the first song
> on the second CD has tags like: { 'Track' => '1', 'Album' => 'My Album
> Title', 'Disc Number' => '2' }.
>
> What I'm doing:
> Add the first two songs for each disk in this album to the play list.
> (Larger playlists exhibit similar behavior, but this is a small test case
> that shows the problem.)
> Choose Mode -> Random -> Album
> Start playback
>
>
> Please note that it seems that this bug has already been reported, then
> misunderstood and wrongly closed and marked as resolved sometime ago. See:
> [1]          http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146657
> and
> [2]           http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=118160182523334&w=2
>
> PS: Please include me in the to field as I am not on this list.
>
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