GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 624535
Shuffle PlayBack
Last modified: 2011-05-27 09:32:23 UTC
When I start Banshee the Playbask -> Shuffle Menu is Grey and I can't shuffle any songs or Albums. Sometimes after a couple of songs played the option is back, but not always.
When playback is happening from the Play Queue, shuffle is disabled. Are you sure this isn't what's happening? What source is bold when this happens?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!
I am having this issue right now! Was running Banshee 1.6.1 on Ubuntu 10.04, though I've upgraded to 1.7.6 today - as well as uninstalled/reinstalled repeatedly. I am not in the Play Queue. When I open the program and hit play, it goes to the same song every time (and if I delete that song, it just starts going to another song every time) and shuffle/repeat options are completely disabled and greyed out. Ctrl+J doesn't work either, to take me to the current song. If I select a random song, all the sudden I have the option to shuffle...but as soon as I click Next, it's automatically back to the same song and all shuffle/repeat options are disabled again. I cannot figure this out.
Alison, It sounds like you have items in your Play Queue source -- listed below Now Playing and above Music in the list of sources on the left-hand side of Banshee. If it contains items that were manually added, it takes over playback. And it doesn't support Shuffle/Repeat modes, so those get disabled. I believe this is your confusion. Please re-open the bug if that's not the case and there is a real bug at play here.
Gabriel, No I am definitely not in the Play Queue. I'm in Music and never ever go into Play Queue. Trust me on this! When I'm in a playlist (like Favorites) and start playing a song, I can edit Shuffle/Repeat, but once the song is over it automatically goes BACK to Music and back to the next song (and shuffle/repeat is disabled). Seems to be deadset on playing through my entire library in order. Even if I'm in Music and have a filter applied...once the song I chose is over, it still goes back to playing what it wants. Do I need to do anything in particular to re-open the bug? New to this. Thanks, Alison
OH I see what you're saying. Sorry. I will have to check later, when I'm at that computer, and get back to you... I've never manually added anything to it though, nor do I ever select it...
Alison, OK - click on Play Queue and see if there are any items in it. Why don't you attach a screenshot here while you're at it?
You win the prize, Gabriel. There were songs in the Play Queue (that I swear I didn't add though...) so even when I was playing the songs from Music, it was taking over. I deleted all of them and now I can change shuffle/repeat when in the Music menu. Everything seems to be back to normal? I still can't figure WHY it happened suddenly, but okay. User error IS the usual problem... "ISSUE" RESOLVED!
You probably accidentally pressed 'q' which is a shortcut to add selected songs to the play queue. Changing the status to NOTABUG.
This had me tearing my hair out for 3 days. Without going on a long rant, this behaviour is very unintuitive and should be considered a usability bug. There should be a separate shuffle flag for each playlist (the play queue, favourites, music, etc).