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DBus/MPRIS2: Totem says it is "Paused" even the stream has ended "Stopped"

Bug #1827735 reported by moma on 2019-05-04

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Totem	Fix Released	Unknown	auto-gitlab.gnome.org-gnome-totem #326
	totem (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hello,

Question 1:
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When asking status of Totem via DBus/MPRIS2, it says "Paused" even the song has ended. Shouldn't it return "Stopped" state.

I am using a small bash-script to see the DBus-messages.

$ ./debug1.sh

org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.rhythmbox says: I AM PLAYING.
Confirmed state is: (<'Playing'>,)
-------------------------

Then the song ends.

org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.rhythmbox says: I AM PAUSED.
Confirmed state is: (<'Paused'>,)
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Question 2:
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GNOME's Music player is "org.gnome.Music".

GNOME's Video player is: "org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.totem"

Why this difference?

I like both products.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: totem 3.32.0-1ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 5.0.1-050001-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat May 4 19:24:02 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-03-06 (58 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190203)
SourcePackage: totem
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XorgLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/Xorg.0.log'

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moma (osmoma) wrote on 2019-05-04:

debug1.sh, a small shell script. Edit (1.6 KiB, text/x-sh)
Dependencies.txt Edit (7.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GstreamerVersions.txt Edit (3.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LogAlsaMixer.txt Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (331 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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moma (osmoma) wrote on 2019-05-04:

Re-hi,
Sorry for this nitpicking.
The results (from debug1.sh) were from Rhythmbox.
I meant this:

$ ./debug1.sh
org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.totem says: I AM PLAYING.
Confirmed state is: (<'Playing'>,)

Then the *LAST* song ends.

org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.totem says: I AM PAUSED.
Confirmed state is: (<'Paused'>,)
-------------------------

Nope. You should say stopped!

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2019-05-07:

Thank you for your bug report, indeed that's an issue, I've reported it upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/totem/issues/326

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2019-05-07

Changed in totem:
status:	Unknown → New

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2019-05-10:

Upstream added this comment

'It is paused back at the beginning of the playlist, not stopped. I'm not sure what problem this causes, if any.'

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2022-02-22

Changed in totem:
status:	New → Fix Released

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moma (osmoma) wrote on 2022-02-22:

Hello,
Some applications monitor the DBus for Start/Pause/Stop-messages from media players.
When an audio track ends (in Totem), it should send a "Stop" message so other applications can update their status properly.

For example, audio-recorder shows "Paused" status for Totem even Totem has Stopped.
Audio-recorder can stop/pause/continue/stop recording based on messages on DBus.

Audio-recorder is now quite old and ought to be re-written. There is now PipeWire that replaces Pulseaudio, and it is now possible to record individual streams (audio from individual applications).
Ref. https://launchpad.net/audio-recorder