Amarok Takes 30 Seconds To Stop Playing Music After You Quit The Program

[Jeremy LaCroix]

Binary package hint: amarok

Not a huge issue, but it is kind of annoying when trying to free your sound card for something else. When you are playing an MP3 in Amarok, and you want to stop, righclick the taskbar icon and choose "quite" the program exits but the sound is still playing for about 30 seconds after it exits.

[John (john.e)]

Aren't you using fade in / fade out ?

[Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount)]

No, I am not using crossfade.

On Saturday September 02 2006 1:47 pm, John wrote:
> Aren't you using fade in / fade out ?

[thewbman (thewbman)]

Same problem here. Running without any crossfade with xine-alsa. Using xinerama if that matters (unlikely).

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

Is this still a problem on edgy?

[Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount)]

Yes.

On November 11 2006 5:20 pm, Andrew Ash wrote:
> Is this still a problem on edgy?
>
> ** Changed in: amarok (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

What database are you using under Configure -> Collection ?

[Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount)]

It says "Sqlite" and both boxes are checked.

On November 11 2006 5:37 pm, Andrew Ash wrote:
> What database are you using under Configure -> Collection ?

[Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9)]

Are you still having this problem? It seems like you are from your comments. Please let me know.

[Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount)]

Yes, I'm still having this problem.

On Thursday December 21 2006 10:49 pm, Freddy Martinez wrote:
> Are you still having this problem? It seems like you are from your
> comments. Please let me know.

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

I'm thinking it might have something to do with the underlying sound system, not necessarily Amarok itself. Does it take 30sec to stop playing a sound file with another music program?

[Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount)]

With XMMS and music embedded in Konqueror it doesn't take any time at all.

On Thursday December 21 2006 11:12 pm, Andrew Ash wrote:
> I'm thinking it might have something to do with the underlying sound
> system, not necessarily Amarok itself. Does it take 30sec to stop
> playing a sound file with another music program?

[Joseph Price (pricechild)]

I'm on Feisty with latest amarok: 2:1.4.5-0ubuntu5

I can confirm this bug. It may not take 30 seconds to stop playing, but it takes atleast 10. Probably an exaggeration on the OP's part.

If I have amarok playing and decide to log out or shutdown, gnome will not log out before the sound has stopped playing, something which adds 10 seconds onto the shutdown.

Pricey

[kipeloff (s-boginskis)]

I'm running KDE (Feisty), when I push 'quit on Amarok menu or system tray', Amarok plays song till the song end, then it stops playing.

[Oliver Wilson (wool-in-silver)]

Same here - vanilla Edgy install, all other sound apps behave normally, amarok keeps playing for 10sec+ after quitting.

[Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount)]

This problem still happens. Any updates?

[Shardsofmetal (shardsofmetal)]

just to confirm, you have gone into options > playback and unchecked "fadeout on exit", right? that's not the same as crossfade

[Michael Chang (thenewme91)]

Are you outputting via either ARTS or PulseAudio? (This would likely be under the engine options.)

Both sound systems take about 30 seconds to free up the sound card after all connected applications stop playing sound, although that can be reconfigured.

[Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount)]

I was just referring to however it is set up out of the box. At least
that's how I use it now. All the other music players I use stop the
sound immediately. Amarok just keeps playing for a while even after the
program was closed.

Michael Chang wrote:
> Are you outputting via either ARTS or PulseAudio? (This would likely be
> under the engine options.)
>
> Both sound systems take about 30 seconds to free up the sound card after
> all connected applications stop playing sound, although that can be
> reconfigured.
>
>

[Michael Chang (thenewme91)]

At risk of being too technical, Amarok itself doesn't play music. The current version actually calls another application (known as an "engine") to play the music -- and the music playing runs in another thread/process so that when the GUI lags, (which WILL happen due to stupidness in the way X is designed) your music doesn't skip. So, A) it takes time for the "quit" message to get from one application to another, and B) if there's a bug in the configuration of the engine, that would likely cause this behaviour. 30 seconds seems like a lot to me, but perhaps it's just me.

Does upgrading to the Amarok in Hardy or Intrepid fix the issue?

Of course, if the whole "using an engine" is the cause of the bug, then you may want to help with testing of Amarok 2, which uses some new-fangled KDE 4 library to play sound instead.

Oh... and for what it's worth, last I checked, XMMS is no longer being maintained, so if it breaks and there's a bug, there's nobody that can fix it. *shrugs*

[Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount)]

In Intrepid I still had this problem. Unfortunately, yesterday I
upgraded all the computers to Amarok 2.0 Beta 3 so I no longer use the
original Amarok. I haven't had enough time to play with Amarok 2 to see
if the issue is fixed, unfortunately. But I should be able to soon.

Michael Chang wrote:
> At risk of being too technical, Amarok itself doesn't play music. The
> current version actually calls another application (known as an
> "engine") to play the music -- and the music playing runs in another
> thread/process so that when the GUI lags, (which WILL happen due to
> stupidness in the way X is designed) your music doesn't skip. So, A) it
> takes time for the "quit" message to get from one application to
> another, and B) if there's a bug in the configuration of the engine,
> that would likely cause this behaviour. 30 seconds seems like a lot to
> me, but perhaps it's just me.
>
> Does upgrading to the Amarok in Hardy or Intrepid fix the issue?
>
> Of course, if the whole "using an engine" is the cause of the bug, then
> you may want to help with testing of Amarok 2, which uses some new-
> fangled KDE 4 library to play sound instead.
>
> Oh... and for what it's worth, last I checked, XMMS is no longer being
> maintained, so if it breaks and there's a bug, there's nobody that can
> fix it. *shrugs*
>
>

[Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9)]

Does anyone know it it is fixed in Amarok? I am using Amarok 2 in interepid and I do not see this issue anymore. I am not sure about other versions of Ubuntu. Is this fix committed?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Assuming fixed in Amarok 2.