Does not remember current song on reopen

[Lukas Sabota]

If I am listening to song Foobar by band X on album Y, when I reopen,
rhythmbox's current song should be Foobar, and band X should be selected, and
album Y should be selected. This is not the case. The first song in my library
is selected, and Album and Artist are selected as All.
The current position on closing should also be restored when reopened.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128495: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128495

[Corey Burger (corey.burger)]

*** Bug 18509 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Sean D. Quinn (seandq)]

Thanks for your bug report and I can reproduce, so I have confirmed the bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream know about it: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128495

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

I agree.

I reported this too on bug #194828 before.

I hope they fix this, because if I listen same song everyday, I get tired of it...

[imachine (m-jedrasik)]

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128495#c17 <- this guy claims to have created a plugin. it seems it could be incorporated into ubuntu rhythmbox package, or a rhythmbox-plugins package could be created, or so :)

[Innocent Bystander (galaxtri)]

After 4+ years, this is not solved. May be this is an intentional design? Can the Dev team add an option somewhere to allow people who still want to resume their last played album / playlist and song position ?

[Hew (hew)]

This issue is a feature request, which is already known upstream. If you look at the linked report (or even the comment above your own), you can see progress has been made.

[Michalxo (michalxo)]

This is a must for any player, especially with big library :-/
Another step away for me from RB :-(

[danizmax (danizmax)]

I would appreciate this function since I listen to same internet radio every day...

[Roman Vorobets (roman-vorobets)]

Will this eventually be fixed after 5 years? :(

[Owais Lone (loneowais)]

I created a plugin for this. Checkout https://launchpad.net/~loneowais/+archive/ppa

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

Nice.
But I think this is such a minor but essential functionality that it should be in the main application.
Push it upstreams.

[Owais Lone (loneowais)]

Ok, I added support to remember genre, artist, album and playlist too. :)

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

Awesome! Good job!
I hope the plugin gets accepted upstreams.

But it would be better if it was part of main functionality and standard behavior since this is so essential that it should not require a plugin.

[Carlos Alberto Maziero (carlos-maziero)]

I'm in Ubuntu 12.04 beta. Seven years after first reported, this bug remains.
Rhythmbox is a great player, but this feature lacks a lot.

apt-get remove rhythmbox
apt-get install (guayadeque|banshee| ...)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[ᗡⴺЯMA (derma)]

Read here...

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128495#c22