Amarok is behaving weirdly after updating phonon-backend-gstreamer

[Christian González]

2012/7/18 Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>:
> Christian González wrote:
>
>> After updating phonon-backend-gstreamer to 4.6.1 (using kde-testing
>> repo), Amarok is behaving weirdly:
>>
>> * Every track in playlist is played twice.
>> * When you clean your playlist while playing some track and put
>> another tracks on it, sometimes Amarok continue to play tracks from
>> the former playlist.
>>
>> I've reproduced the same symptoms on a co-worker's laptop. Removing
>> .kde/share/apps/amarok and .kde/share/config/amarok* do not fix it.
>>
>> More info:
>>
>> [christian at laptop ~]$ rpm -q amarok phonon-backend-gstreamer kdelibs
>> amarok-2.5.90-1.fc17.x86_64
>> phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64
>> phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.1-1.fc17.i686
>> kdelibs-4.8.97-3.fc17.x86_64
>>
>> My guess is that this bug is related to "gapless" feature included in
>> phonon-gstreamer [1], but I'm not sure about that. Others music
>> players (Clementine, Tepsonic, qmmp, YaRock, Banshee) are OK.
>>
>> Is there somebody seeing the same problem? Should I file a bug against
>> phonon-gstreamer or Amarok?
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303580
>
> my gut feeling is that it's an amarok bug only exposed in the recent phonon-
> gst update, but we'll let upstream duke it out.

Thanks Rex, I'll follow upstream bugzilla from now on.
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