Amarok stopping playback seemingly "at random"?

[Pieter Verledens]

2009/4/11 Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net>:
> On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 20:14 +0200, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>  It seems that sometimes amarok decides to stop
>> playback at the end of a song (no particular one, seen it with at least
>> 5 or 6 different ones) and I can't get it to start playback again when
>> this happens. I need to kill amarok and restart it to have it play
>> again.
>
> I have something not exactly this, but maybe from a similar cause? About
> 1 time in 3, when I pause, I cannot get it to start playing again
> without quitting out of amarok and doing a "killall amarok", then
> restarting. I haven't seen it stop playing randomly, only failing to
> restart after a pause. When the problem happens, doing a play causes the
> control icons to change and show that it's playing, but the status bar
> doesn't move and no sound comes out.
>
> I'm using the Fedora 10 packages (currently at 2.0.2-3). My collection
> is mostly ogg files with a few MP3's and FLAC's, but the hang occurs
> randomly regardless of the type of file being played. I can reproduce it
> with a few pause/play cycles, it only takes 4 or 5 for the hang to
> occur.
>
> --Greg
>
The same happens over here.