Multiple songs playing simultaneously

[AG]

On 28/12/12 14:55, Jayesh Badwaik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not a KDE Developer and do not have much knowledge about Amarok
> code, but I am reading the source code now since two days, and trying to
> understand it. so, please forgive me if the following is not correct.
>
> I cannot reproduce this bug, but I remember it happened exactly **once**
> on Amarok in ArchLinux some four days ago. Since then, it hasn't
> happened again. It seemed as if amarok orphaned the sound playing system
> and then generated another instance to play the next song. Also, I let
> it play, since I had read this bug, and I noticed that while the second
> track was completely synced according to the display and then the
> playback was normal w.r.t to it, the first track kept looping. I could
> not stop it even by quitting and stopping amarok. I killed and restarted
> pulseaudio, but I think the problem might be between pulseaudio and amarok.
>
> When I encountered this problem, I was reminded of another problem that
> I am still facing[0]. And it seems to me as if there must be something
> problematic in the code which handles switching of tracks which might be
> related. May be in the above case, a resourced was allocated twice and
> may be in the [0] case, the resource allocation fails?  The problem
> being a random problem suggests there must be a race condition somewhere.
>
> And yes, the problem started occuring since Amarok 2.5 and KDE 4.8. If
> Debian is backporting bug patches from KDE 4.8 or Amarok 2.5 currently,
> then this might seem to be related.
>
> --
> Regards
> Jayesh
> [0] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296100
>
>
>
Thanks for your comments Jayesh.

I have since switched to Clementine which even on my ancient system - 
chosen for stability - plays nice and does exactly as I want it to do.

Cheers
AG