Stop playing when play queue empty

[era]

Binary package hint: banshee

If I run out of play queue, I would not like Banshee to start playing whatever remained selected when I created the play queue.

I suppose this might be something users don't agree on, so perhaps it should be a preference.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 13:30 +0000, era wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: banshee
>
> If I run out of play queue, I would not like Banshee to start playing
> whatever remained selected when I created the play queue.
>
> I suppose this might be something users don't agree on, so perhaps it
> should be a preference.
>
> ** Affects: banshee (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
I believe what you're looking for is Playback->Stop when finished. I'm
closing this bug since this is already implemented as a checkbox in the
menu. Also, for the record, I _would_ like Banshee to continue playing
whatever was previously selected.

  affects ubuntu/banshee
  status invalid
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Chow Loong Jin

[era (era)]

Thanks for the quick response and immediate remedy. I looked for it in various places but I suppose the wording on this option was too obscure for me. Perhaps it should be rephrased, although I cannot quickly come up with a better way to say it (succinctly).

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

This was a bug in past versions, but was fixed last October. It's possible you're still using a version that predates that fix though; which version are you using?
Also, as I just mentioned upstream, there is some unintuitive behavior that happens with the Play Queue:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547213#c8:
> There are two cases of how to handle playback once the Play Queue empties.
> Case 1: Banshee is stopped; items are added to the Queue:
> 1. When you press Play, Banshee will play items from the Queue.
> 2. When the Queue is empty, playback will stop.
>
> Case 2: Banshee is playing from a source (e.g. Music Library, a playlist); items are added to
> the queue:
> 1. When the current song finishes, playback switches to the Queue.
> 2. When the Queue is empty, playback will return to the previous source.
>
> To stop playback when using the Queue, the only way I know to do that is to
> make sure Banshee is stopped before starting the Queue, which (for me) has
> meant restarting Banshee. Pausing will not work, because the playback source is
> still marked "active" when the Queue takes over.

[era (era)]

Like my earlier response indicated, Chow Loong Jin's answer already resolved it for me. The original submission contained the version number. But I'm grateful for the additional explanation; I have been struggling with the actual queue manipulation, too.