GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 659227
Pressing "next" when in a "Shuffle by" mode should not always re-shuffle
Last modified: 2011-09-20 13:15:42 UTC
Hi, I was just trying to test Shuffle By Artist but couldn't figure out why it wasn't doing the shuffling correctly. Turns out it kind-of was but not all of the time. 1. Turn on shuffle by album (or one of the ones that plays a defined sequence of more than one item and then does a random selection) 2. Start playing track 1 of any album (ensuring no filters are active) 3. Press next in the toolbar 4. Track 1 of another album is played At step 4, I expect track 2 to start playing. This is what would happen if I listened to the end of the song. I think it's a fair thing to say that next should always perform the same action that you'd get by listening to the end of a song. Do you agree? Cheers, Iain
This sounds like the same issue as Bug 608781, so I'm going to mark this as a duplicate. That bug is marked as WONTFIX because the current behavior is, in fact, intended. The shuffle by artist/album modes treat entire artists or albums as a group, and if you press the skip button, you are effectively skipping the entire group of songs. It's a bit of a tricky situation, so see Bug 608781 for more details and discussion. If you disagree with the reasoning there, maybe you can talk the developers into re-evaluating the behavior. > I think it's a fair thing to say that next should always perform the same > action that you'd get by listening to the end of a song. Do you agree? This is definitely a valid point. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 608781 ***