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regarding amarok: Insufficient phonon backend error reporting
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Package: amarok
Version: 2.1.1-1
Severity: important
Hello,
I tried out Amarok 2.1.1 from experimental (but reverted back to 1.4 due to
bugs #534392 and #534393, and the missing playback queue), and as mentioned in
#534392, the gstreamer phonon backend doesn't work well with amarok. But amarok
doesn't tell me that, it just skips the songs, and after ~10 songs shows a "Too
many errors encountered in the playlist. Playback stopped." message. This is a)
not helpful, and b) wrong.
What am I supposed to do with this message? The playlist looks ok to me, lots
of songs from my hd, exactly what I want to play. And amarok made the playlist
itself (using the random playlist), why would it be corrupted?
So, the message doesn't tell me the real problem. The real problem is not the
playlist, but something else. Maybe the file, but I know those play in other
apps. Sound output? I've configured phonon to use the gstreamer backend, and
the 'test' button plays its sound, so I have to suppose that's also not the
problem.
At this point all I can do is google the error message, and it tells me, it is
a problem with the backend. And lo and behold, changing to xine makes all my
files play (though way louder than I want them played, due to #534393).
OK. Now I know what the problem is, and how to solve it. But having to google
the error message, I guess these days that's called MAJOR FAIL. And what's this
"stop after 10 errors"? "Hm, can't play that file... let's not bother our users
with an error, just skip to the next file ... Hm, we got 10 errors, maybe
something _is_ wrong. Let's give them a totally useless message!" MAJOR FAIL.
How about telling me what _exactly_ the problem is, when the _first_ file fails
to play? That doesn't need to be with an error box for each file that fails,
skipping to the next file isn't a bad design decision per se. But completely
hiding the errors, and at some random point telling the user there were too
many of them _is_. So, put the last error in the status bar, and have an easily
accessible error log (one line per error that tells exactly what the problem
was) for previous errors for example. That would make finding problems much
easier.
Best regards,
Christian Ohm
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages amarok depends on:
ii amarok-common 1.4.10-3 architecture independent files for
ii amarok-engine-xine 1.4.10-3+b1 Xine engine for the Amarok audio p
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2 core libraries and binaries for al
ii libc6 2.9-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-7 GCC support library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.4.1-1 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgpod4 0.7.2-1 library to read and write songs an
ii libifp4 1.0.0.2-3 communicate with iRiver iFP audio
ii libkarma0 0.0.6-4 Rio Karma access library [runtime
ii libmtp8 0.3.7-7 Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) libr
ii libmysqlclient15off 5.0.81-1 MySQL database client library
ii libnjb5 2.2.5-4.2 Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox librar
ii libpq5 8.3.7-1 PostgreSQL C client library
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.8b-5 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libruby1.8 1.8.7.174-1 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-4+b1 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.14.2-1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtag1c2a 1.5-6 TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library
ii libtunepimp5 0.5.3-7+b1 MusicBrainz tagging library
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library
ii libvisual-0.4-0 0.4.0-2.1 Audio visualization framework
ii unzip 6.0-1 De-archiver for .zip files
Versions of packages amarok recommends:
pn amarok-konqsidebar <none> (no description available)
ii kdemultimedia-kio-plugins 4:4.2.4-1 transparent audio CD access for KD
Versions of packages amarok suggests:
pn amarok-engines <none> (no description available)
ii dillo [www-browser] 0.8.6-3 Small and fast web browser
ii epiphany-gecko [www-b 2.26.1-1 Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck
ii iceape-browser [www-b 1.1.14-1 Iceape Navigator (Internet browser
ii iceweasel [www-browse 3.0.11-1 lightweight web browser based on M
ii konqueror [www-browse 4:4.2.4-1 KDE 4's advanced file manager, web
ii libvisual-0.4-plugins 0.4.0.dfsg.1-2 Audio visualization framework plug
ii links2 [www-browser] 2.2-1+b1 Web browser running in both graphi
pn moodbar <none> (no description available)
ii opera [www-browser] 9.64.2480.gcc4.qt3 The Opera Web Browser
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-2+b1 WWW browsable pager with excellent
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Don't kiss an elephant on the lips today.
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as the package amarok has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/935022
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