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Bug 651024 - Totem displays embedded album art instead of visualization
Totem displays embedded album art instead of visualization
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 727761
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: GStreamer backend
2.32.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Maintainer alias for GStreamer component of Totem
Maintainer alias for GStreamer component of Totem
: 699976 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-05-25 04:22 UTC by Erik Andersen
Modified: 2014-04-11 07:48 UTC
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Description Erik Andersen 2011-05-25 04:22:00 UTC 
Totem displays embedded album art instead of a visualization, and there appears to be no setting to disable the album art display. 

To reproduce:
Make sure visualization is enabled; Edit(menu)->Preferences(menu item)->Display(Tab). Check "Show visual effects when an audio file is played". Click close.
Play attached file with totem.
Notice that even though you tell totem to show visual effects you see none, with album art instead. 

What should happen:
*Maybe an option to pick between visualization or album art?
-or-
*Show album art if "Show visual effects when an audio file is played" is unchecked; show visualization if "Show visual effects when an audio file is played" is checked.
Comment 1 Mikko Ohtamaa 2012-10-26 21:15:45 UTC 
Confirmed this with

Totem Movie Player 3.0.1
Movie Player using GStreamer 0.10.36
Ubuntu 12.04
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2013-03-19 13:59:18 UTC 
You could consider this a bug, or a feature :)

Let's see what the designers think.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2014-01-26 00:48:28 UTC 
*** Bug 699976 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2014-04-11 07:48:47 UTC 
We will be "fixing" this by removing the support for visual effects instead. Visual effects only make sense if audio is one of the supported media types we offer, but it's not our main focus, and we shouldn't need to have features that make more sense in a media center or audio player.

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 727761 ***