** Summary changed: - when sound hardware fails, amarok locks the computer trying to play all songs in playlist + Amarok loops through all songs when the sound device isn't unavailable
** Description changed: Binary package hint: amarok - This is rather unpleasant issue. - - I'm having some problems with pulseaudio, which means that occasionally - the sound hardware goes down and Amarok receives an error from Xine. - This is not Amarok's fault. The problem is that when that happens, - Amarok displays a warning message, but instead of stopping it keeps - trying to play each track in the playlist in turn. + When Amarok tries to play a song but the sound device is unavailable + (another program is using it) Amarok will try to loop through all the + tracks in the playlist, becoming very irresponsive. Each time a track starts playing Amarok hogs the processor -- I assume it starts building the 'track info' panel and even decoding the file before it notices the sound doesn't work. So it moves to the next file - and again hogs the processor. The result is that (a) nothing works on my - computer anymore until it finishes the playlist and (b) I can't turn - Amarok off until it finishes the playlist (because it didn't allow me to - press any buttons, and I couldn't even start a terminal or switch to a - console; and it was a looong playlist). I suppose if I had auto-repeat - on I would need to restart the computer. This is double-weird as I have - a Core Duo processor and low-latency kernel... + and again hogs the processor. - Note that I have had the same problem with Amarok with different causes - (i.e., external drive failed, etc). So I see it as a general issue, - rather than just the 'sound hardware doesn't work'. - - I think Amarok should stop trying to play things automatically when it - detects the same error consecutively for a few times, until it receives - user direction. - - Also, this is a bit of an Ubuntu problem too, as it amounts to a nice - denial of service technique. Would it be possible to dynamically nice a - normal-priority process that has been using up 90% of the processor for - the last second or so? (Excepting, perhaps, root processes and maybe - higher-than-normal priority processes.) The point is, you should be able - to at least move to a console and start a terminal to kill an aberrant - process. + Amarok should stop trying to play things automatically when it detects + the same error consecutively for a few times, until it receives user + direction. -- Amarok loops through all songs when the sound device isn't unavailable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85791 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is a bug contact for amarok in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
