Play queue extension doesn't fill by album properly

[Andy Smith]

When the play queue extension is set to randomly fill "by album", it only adds one album's worth of tracks regardless of how much space is free in the play queue. In addition the "add more" button hardly ever appears to do anything and when it does, it merely adds a single albums worth of tracks again.

As a result the player quickly reaches the end of the play queue and starts playing tracks randomly from the library.

Expected behaviour, as seen in 12.04, would be for the play queue to fill to its limit with tracks by album, e.g. when the limit is 100 tracks it should fill to that amount, not just a single album's worth of tracks. This is a definite regression between the versio packaged in 12.04 and the one in 14.04.

I have not yet been able to build an upstream version of Banshee as:

⟫ sudo apt-get build-dep banshee
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Failed to satisfy Build-Depends dependency for banshee: Installed package libgpod-cil-dev is too new

but I suspect it has the same issue as I could not find any similar issue reported in upstream's bugzilla.

I have attempted to report this bug in upstream's bugzilla, but it requires me to create an account and doesn't seem to want to email me the verification link for that.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: banshee 2.9.0+really2.6.2-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Jun 28 16:56:14 2014
SourcePackage: banshee
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Andy Smith (grifferz)]

Looks like there is already an upstream bug for this, which I missed:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726411

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 04:06:46PM -0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> [...]
> ⟫ sudo apt-get build-dep banshee
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Failed to satisfy Build-Depends dependency for banshee: Installed package libgpod-cil-dev is too new

This looks like an apt-get bug (Bug #1335614). Try aptitude build-deps banshee.

> [...]

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

[Andy Smith (grifferz)]

Thanks, that now pulls in dependencies and completes without error, however it is still not possible to build the current git head:

⟫ ./autogen.sh
.
.
.
checking for GLIBSHARP... yes
checking for GTKSHARP... yes
checking for GST_SHARP... no
configure: error: Package requirements (gstreamer-sharp-1.0 >= 0.99.0) were not met:

No package 'gstreamer-sharp-1.0' found

I suppose that is not strictly a bug since I am not trying to build a packaged version, but I am happy to report a separate bug (on Launchpad) if that is useful?

In any case I don't need to build git head now as it's already been confirmed upstream that this bug still exists.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:53:11PM -0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> Thanks, that now pulls in dependencies and completes without error,
> however it is still not possible to build the current git head:
>
> ⟫ ./autogen.sh
> .
> .
> .
> checking for GLIBSHARP... yes
> checking for GTKSHARP... yes
> checking for GST_SHARP... no
> configure: error: Package requirements (gstreamer-sharp-1.0 >= 0.99.0) were not met:
>
> No package 'gstreamer-sharp-1.0' found
>
> I suppose that is not strictly a bug since I am not trying to build a
> packaged version, but I am happy to report a separate bug (on Launchpad)
> if that is useful?

gstreamer-sharp-1.0 hasn't been packaged in Ubuntu yet, unfortunately.

> In any case I don't need to build git head now as it's already been
> confirmed upstream that this bug still exists.

Alright.

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[carega (crlsmuoz5)]

I've experienced the same issue as well and partially solved it by downgrading to 2.6.1. Now this old version is nowhere to be found and I'm stuck with a PlayQueue that doesn't work.

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 on a i386 architecture. The version I'm having problems with is 2.6.2 (or something that says 2.9 but really 2.6.2)

Are there any updates on this? Or any workaround?