Renaming or deleting a file from the playlist confuses Banshee

[Andy Smith]

If you have an item in a playlist and you rename or delete the corresponding file from the filesystem, Banshee stops cycling through the playlist when it reaches the item whose file no longer exists. However, if you then click on the *next* item in the playlist, Banshee puts the green "play" arrow next to the previous (now missing) item. It also reports the missing item's metadata to other services like last.fm. It does however play the correct item.

An example:

Say my playlist contains the following items:

> The Beatles - Something
   The Beatles - Baby You're a Rich Man
   Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

While "Something" is playing, I delete the file corresponding to "Baby You're a Rich Man". When Banshee reaches the end of "Something", it tries to play "Baby You're a Rich Man" and fails because the file no longer exists.

I notice that playback has ceased and go to look at Banshee. I double click on "Nothing Else Matters" in order to carry on from there. Banshee now shows:

   The Beatles - Something
> The Beatles - Baby You're a Rich Man
   Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

but it is actually playing "Nothing Else Matters"! "Baby You're a Rich Man" is reported to last.fm also.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: banshee 2.4.0-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic-pae 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 8 16:24:33 2012
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-01 (68 days ago)

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Hi,

Could you test if this bug affects the 2.4.1-3ubuntu1~precise version found on
precise-proposed?

You can enable precise-proposed by following the instructions on
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed.

  status incomplete

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

[Andy Smith (grifferz)]

Hi,

I've now installed 2.4.1-3ubuntu1~precise1 from precise-proposed and can confirm it behaves exactly the same way.

Note that if "Rescan Music Library" is selected from the "Tools" menu then Banshee does notice that tracks in the play queue have gone away and removes them correctly. It just doesn't cope with this when it encounters a missing file by itself.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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