Amarok "resume playback" feature doesn't work as expected

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

Binary package hint: amarok

Amarok has an option titled "Resume playback on start". I would assume that this means that if I exit Amarok (or if it crashes) and then restart it, it would resume playing the same track, from the time position it was at before the closure/crash. If the track was paused, it should resume in a paused state.

Instead, it skips to the next track in the playlist, and starts playing from the beginning of that track.

This has been a bug on at least Feisty and Gutsy. According to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134545 this is not a problem upstream.

There is an ongoing discussion about this at http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151466

[Parthan SR (parth-technofreak)]

I can reproduce the bug in amarok 1.4.7 (Ubuntu 7.10). When I play a song, pause it in the middle, exit amarok and restart it, then the song starts from the beginning (and I have to manually play it). Waiting for some one to check the behavior in Amarok from upstream and confirm that the expected behavior is to play the song from where it was paused. Also, the bug needs to be confirmed for amarok v1.4.8 which is available in Hardy.

[Parthan SR (parth-technofreak)]

Sorry, I found that the "resume playback option" got somehow checked off. When I checked it ON and tried the same, it was able to resume playback from the place I paused it before quitting amarok. Hence this bug is not reproducable in amarok v1.4.7 in Ubuntu 7.10. Closing this bug, but feel free to re-open it if you can confirm this bug, especially in v1.4.8 available in Hardy.

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

I just tested again in Gutsy. The inconsistency remains: sometimes it will skip to the next track on restart, and other times it will resume from where it left off. If Amarok was paused when it was closed, it still does not resume in a paused state. This means that I can't keep Amarok as part of my login session, as it starts playing immediately after I log in.

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

Also I can confirm that the 'resume playback' option is well and truly selected in my Amarok. It was never deselected.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

It seems to work without skipping to the next track here in Amarok 2.0.2. And since upstream has said that they won't implement restoring as paused I'm closing this bug.