System file queue not played correctly

[Martin Marek]

Binary package hint: banshee

When I enqueue several songs like

  banshee --play-enqueued song.mp3 melody.mp3 whistle.mp3,

Banshee sometimes omits some songs on the queue top and starts playback somewhere from middle. It looks like it starts with song.mp3 from command line, but the queue is sorted by name, so melody.mp3 is not played. I think the queue should be played whole - either sorted (from melody.mp3 in the example), or with order taken from command line.

Version: Banshee 1.4.3 on ubuntu 9.04

[Neil Munro (neilmunro-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug does not occur in the latest release of banshee (1.5 available from the PPA) as such the bug has been marked as incomplete.

You can either install the latest banshee from the ppa or download a daily live cd of what will be the next version of Ubuntu and run the CD in live mode just to see if you bug exists, if it's not present this bug report will be closed.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Thursday 25,June,2009 08:04 PM, Neil Munro wrote:
> This bug does not occur in the latest release of banshee (1.5 available
> from the PPA) as such the bug has been marked as incomplete.
>
> You can either install the latest banshee from the ppa or download a
> daily live cd of what will be the next version of Ubuntu and run the CD
> in live mode just to see if you bug exists, if it's not present this bug
> report will be closed.
I believe you're mistaken on this note. Banshee 1.5.0 has not, and will
not be entering Ubuntu Karmic (9.10), and as such, the daily live cd
will not have this version of Banshee. This is because Banshee 1.5.0 has
a beta status, similar to how GNOME packages have odd minor version
numbers for unstable releases.

Banshee 1.5.0 is available for Ubuntu Karmic, Jaunty, and Intrepid in
the Banshee Unstable PPA[1].

[1] https://launchpad.net/~banshee-unstable-team/+archive/ppa

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Regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[Martin Marek (76house)]

@Neil You are true, I have tried 1.5.0 from unstable PPA and the system queue is played in expected order (according to current sort). The only problem is that files are only queued and I have start the playback manually, even when I combine --play-queued and --play switches. Is there any possibility to start the playback automatically?

[vhellmet (vhellmet)]

Well, I'm on Banshee 1.5.2 (1.6Beta) and I enqueue files using 'banshee-1 --enqueue'. The most annoying this is that files get sorted by name automatically, and files sitting on top of the currently playing song never play. The player simply stops after playing the current playing song.

[vhellmet (vhellmet)]

There is a fix available which I figured out:
What I ended up doing was adding the Date Added column which specifies when the file was added to the queue and using this column to sort the queue(by clicking the Date Added heading in the File System queue). You could then hide the column once you’re done setting it up. Now files add up onto the queue as FIFO and not in any sorted order.

However, an enqueued file doesn't start playing, even if there is no other file in the queue. Couldn't find a fix for that.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

I'm marking this invalid due to inactivity. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can still reproduce it on Banshee 1.6.0, currently found in Ubuntu 10.04, or Banshee 1.7.1 which is found in Ubuntu 10.10, and also available via the Banshee Unstable PPA (https://launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive/banshee-unstable)