Pause button doesn't work

AG computing.account at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 2 19:32:16 UTC 2010


Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> Hi AG,
>
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 19:51, AG <computing.account at googlemail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:32 PM, AG <computing.account at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>       
>
>   
>>> Very likely a problem with your Phonon backend. Some distros use
>>> Phonon-GStreamer by default, and this one is quite buggy.
>>>
>>> We currently recommend using Phonon-xine, which is less buggy.
>>> Ultimately there will be Phonon-VLC, which is currently in
>>> development, but for now xine works best.
>>>       
>> Hmm ... tried changing the backend to xine and all I got was the player
>> skipping all tracks in turn, playing nothing.  Not a viable solution in my
>> case.
>>     
>
> Well, this is due to you not having the codecs installed for the xine
> backend. In the case of Debian, you need to isntall the package called
> libxine1-ffmpeg.
>
>   

I already have the latest codec installed -

sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libxine1-ffmpeg is already the newest version.


So, that is not the issue here I don't think. 




>> The other thing I have noticed is that adding new songs to the current
>> playlist automatically shuffles to the first track of the new playlist ...
>> even mid-song.  This really is a PITA.
>>
>> Are developers aware of this issue, do you know?
>>     
>
> I can't reproduce this here with the developer version, so I guess it
> is already fixed for the upcoming Amarok 2.3.1
>
>
>   

It is an issue I haven;t encountered in some two years of using Amarok, 
so do hope that this is a temporary issue.

Thanks for your ideas.

AG
> Regards, Myriam.
>   

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