GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 312129
Don't stop playback when some file in the playlist fails
Last modified: 2005-08-05 12:51:34 UTC
When 1 file fails to play in the playlist, totem shows an error-dialog (like when the file is not supported or moved) and stops playing. Maybe it would be cool to have totem move those files to the bottom of the playlist and color them differently in a "broken files" section and skip to the next track on the playlist. I use Totem for music playback and I use my wireless headphones and then it's just so bad when the music stops and I have to go to my computer to simply click OK.
I woudn't move them in the playlist, but just skip them and move on to the next file in the list. A red "broken file" however would be nice :)
Yeah I see that was a bad idea. As rubenv pointed out on the gnome-nl IRC chan, it would change your whole playlist if ,you forgot to mount some drive which would suck.
Recent versions of Totem already ignore most of the files it can't play (like text/* and image/* mime-typed files). See whether this works out for you.
In my case it was like ... I make a playlist, I save it on my deskop and now and then I click it to listen some music. But, when I move a file on my HD that is in that playlist, it will fail to play it the next time as the location isn't right. So, then I guess totem will still stop the stream ? Maybe totem should show non-nblocking error msgs instead. So, instead of a dialog window, have a message in the totem GUI. I made a mockup for what I had in mind but there could be much better ways to handle this.
http://student.vub.ac.be/~kmdemeye/totem-filerr.png (the mockup ;))
Let's look at this for the next version then.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 303942 ***