Hi,

for a while now, "Resume Playback" hasn't worked as it should (yes, it's enabled). Rather than remembering where I was in the track that I was listening to when I quit Amarok, the track is just restarted when next I start the program. This, I believe, started several months ago after a version bump, but it's been too long to remember. Anyways, now it's started bugging me sufficiently enough to where I will finally start trying to fix it. Which is why I'm writing this.

Is this a known problem? Can I do anything about it? This glitch can be annoying.

The versions: Amarok 2.5.0, Qt 4.8.1, Gstreamer 4.6.0 on openSUSE 12.1/KDE 4.8.3

Thanks a lot!

Is the behaviour different with the VLC backend for Phonon?

Thank you for your speedy reply.

With VLC, the position is remembered, but there is a problem with playback. When I start Amarok, the icons imply that it is playing, but the position marker is at 0 and no playback takes place. Pushing the playback buttons only changes the button status, but nothing about the playback. Only when I double-click on the song in the playlist will playback be resumed - and from the position last remembered.

Why are these backends acting up this way? Does anybody else struggle with this? Thanks.

Do you have some special setups changed like the single-click default set to double click in KDE?

Nothing that comes to mind. Definitely not the single-click behavior.

Very strange. I can't reproduce this here at all, using current Amarok 2.5-git and the vlc backend 0.5.0

I will try to upgrade to phonon-backend-vlc 0.5.0 tonight or whenever the openSUSE servers are online again. If I can find a package... Currently I am using 0.4.1 from Packman. You'll hear from me. Thanks so far.

Mamarok wrote:Very strange. I can't reproduce this here at all, using current Amarok 2.5-git and the vlc backend 0.5.0

I can reproduce with current git Amarok, Phonon, PGST and PVLC. With gst, playback resumes from the beginning of a song; with VLC the timestamp is remembered but it's stuck in a non-playing state. Make sure you have resume playback on start selected in the settings.

Thank you, Sentynel. Resume playback is definitely checked in the settings.

phonon-backend-vlc 0.5.0git (which is the only newer version I could find) does not work at all, and sets back VLC from 2.0 to a 1.x version. I switched back to Gstreamer. The gstreamer backend package is at 4.6.0, which seems to be recent (at least in openSUSE).

Are there any logs or terminal outputs that I can/should check?