Amarok sometimes hangs during playback and has to be killed
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: amarok
Amarok sometimes hangs during playback (music stops playing, but systray icon still displays 'play' sign).
I am using 1.4.5-0ubuntu2~
The behaviour changed a bit for 1.4.5 so I describe for both versions:
1.4.3:
Playback stops as described.
When hovering over the systray icon the tooltip about the current song appears normally and the current song time displayed after "Length:" does not change anymore.
When right-clicking on the icon, the menu gets displayed.
When clicking stop, most of the time the application hangs completely. Instead of the play sign a gray rectangle is displayed and I have to "killall amarokapp" after which I can start amarok again.
But sometimes, after clicking on "Stop" the application returns to normal stopped state and I can directly start playing another (or the same) song again.
There seems to be no pattern as to which behaviour will occur, although the complete hangup is more frequent.
1.4.5:
Same behaviour as 1.4.3 until I click on Stop in right-click menu.
Amarok returns to stopped mode and seems to work normally.
But when I want to play again Amarok hangs completely with the small gray rectangle instead of a play sign in systray icon.
This all seems completely random to me, seemingly not depending on the song playing or anything else. It occurs about every 5 hours on average, sometimes more often, sometimes less often. Sometimes it seems to me to occur more often when there is heavy network traffic (eg. Azureus running), but not sure.
If you need more info I'm happy to provide it. If you want me to do something when it hangs the next time, I can try that.
This does not happen anymore with Ubuntu 7.04
$amarok --version
Qt: 3.3.7
KDE: 3.5.6
Amarok: 1.4.5
(amarok package version: 2:1.4.5-0ubuntu7)
So I think this had possibly not much to du with amarok itself but other programs that were updated from Edgy to Feisty (ALSA, etc.?)