questions about CD audio changing track

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Luc Menut <lmenut at mandriva.org> wrote:
> Nikolaj Hald Nielsen a écrit :
>> The reason for calling slotAboutToFinish() is that Phonon does not
>> automatically stop after playing one track on a CD,
>
> It doesn't stop after playing each track because phonon uses autoplay by
> default.
>
> I think you should try to disable autoplay - setAutoplayTitles(false).
> Without autoplay, the mediaobject should emit signals aboutToFinish and
> finished at the end of each track and paused.
>
> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/phonon-mediacontroller.html#details
> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/phonon-mediacontroller.html#autoplayTitles
> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/phonon-mediacontroller.html#setAutoplayTitles
>
>> so if your CD
>> tracks in the playlist are not in the same order they are on the CD,
>> or are mixed up with non CD tracks, it will cause issues.
>>
>> You are right that playing consecutive tracks off a CD should be
>> handled more gracefully, as there is currently also a "gap" in
>> playback when advancing to the next track that really does not need to
>> be there. The thing is that getting the engine controller to know
>> whether the next track is the consecutive track on a CD is slightly
>> tricky and something I did not have time to implement for 2.2.0. It is
>> on my todo list though.

Thanks for the information, Luc. As you seem to know a lot about
Phonon, would you like to create a patch for us?

This would be nice, as we're generally very busy with many other
things. So much to do :)

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
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