I don't know why, but Amarok won't change to the next track when finished with a track. When Amarok reaches the end of a song, it goes back to 0:00, without changing to a new song, or repeating the current one. It doesn't count the track as played either, but it still submits to last.fm fine. The skip button still works fine, but automatically changing to the next song doesn't.

I can't remove Amarok through YaST so I can reinstall it, it gives me a bunch of errors about how amarok-xine, amarok-yauap, and pattern:kde_multimedia having missing dependencies.

Using 1.4.7-37.2 on OpenSuSE 10.3

[danglewtf: edited to add distro to topic for sticky]

Same problem here on OpenSuse 10.3 with Amarok 1.4.7 on KDE 3.5.7!

i solved changing to xine engine.

the problem appears using GStreamer engine that is put by default on amarok 1.4.7 (kde 3.5.7 "release 72" - oponSUSE 10.3)

ah, the old "screw around with amarok packaging then expect the community to help" trick again...

For the record, pretty much everyone else uses xine engine - gstreamer hasn't been officially supported since Amarok 1.3.x - your distro packages a very experimental engine.

Wow, changing to xine was a pretty easy fix. Not sure why Novell decided to default to gstreamer in Amarok. Thanks for the incredibly easy solution.

SuSE uses yauap because of gstreamer010 because of mp3-plugin from Fluendo. So using yauap has just legal reasons, no repackaging with experimental stuff.

Greetings
m0nk

When i type amarok in yast i can see xine but not GStreamer and i still get bugs sometime with amarok not changing songs..
What shall i do??

To this I would add - the flame bate (really just as a good natured jibe) - none of that would have happened to you in SuSE if you were using KDE instead of Gnome - but read that as Defaults.

Paul

TakeIT2 wrote:To this I would add - the flame bate (really just as a good natured jibe) - none of that would have happened to you in SuSE if you were using KDE instead of Gnome - but read that as Defaults.

Paul

Hi there!

Ummm, excuse me, but I installed OpenSuSE 10.3 KDE with everything in default, and was facing this problem too.

Cheers,
Andy

Yeah, this issue is unrelated to KDE/GNOME.

It feels like it's a bug:
I have just installed 2.1 (at Kubuntu 9.04, KDE 4.2.4), and there was just the same problem.
But after the reboot everything's fine now.

Having the same issue here too - Amarok 2.1.1 with KDE 4.2 (Fedora 11) and using Xine.

Problem has only just started since I upgraded from Fedora 10 (where I couldn't restart playback in Amarok after pausing a track) to 11.  Doh! 

I came to the forum today to post a message about this exact problem

Looks to me that this is a bug. I am using Kubuntu 9.04, but upgraded to KDE 4.3 stable release. About Amarok say v. 2.1 and I wish there was a ppa that I could use to upgrade to Amarok 2.1.1

BUT -

This problem of not playing happens often after "messing around" a bit too much. Adding songs in the playlist, removing them, double clicking on songs in the playlist etc.

There are some annoyances that I experience in Amarok, and I am sure it is because I am not familiar enough with it, so I am going to make a separate post and hope someone can give me some pointers on it.

Just had a little revelation:

I suddenly got the problem with Amarok not moving on to next song AND if I append a track to the playlist it immediately jumps to this track and starts playing it.

Here is what happened:

I started the computer up. I have two USB drives attached and most of my music on one of them and I have selected it as one of the folder of my local archive. As this one is not set up to automount, I have to click on it in Dolphin to mount it. I forgot to do this now, started Amarok and added a couple of songs to the playlist to play them. Of course it did not play anything and I then went to Dolphin and clicked to mount the USB drive. Went back to play and Amarok only played the one song. As well as jumping to the new song immediately if I added anything in the playlist.

So for this to happen:

Add a folder on a USB drive in your collection.
Start Amarok before the USB drive has been mounted and try to play a song.
Then mount the USB drive by just clicking on it in Dolphin.
The song plays, but do not move on to the next item in the playlist.

Can anyone else repeat this?

Oceanwatcher wrote:Looks to me that this is a bug. I am using Kubuntu 9.04, but upgraded to KDE 4.3 stable release. About Amarok say v. 2.1 and I wish there was a ppa that I could use to upgrade to Amarok 2.1.1

Amarok 2.1.1 is in the regular jaunty-backports repository (not a PPA) since it's release.