No sound for minutes, then sound
Submitted by Bill Gradwohl
Link to original bug (#683037)
Description
Playing a playlist largely of .flac files, periodically a song ends and the next one's album cover appears iconified, the title switches over to the artist and song, the progress bar resets but then nothing happens.
If, for example, the song is 3 minutes long, sometimes waiting 3 minutes with no indication of progress, and no sound there's a 1 second burst of noise, the progress bar advances from 0 to 3:00 in a flash and the next song comes up.
Hitting the play button during this dead period causes that button to go to its paused look, and the title says paused. Hitting play again causes it to go to its playing look, but there is no progress on the progress bar and no sound. Hitting the ball on the progress bar causes it to start playing.
At other times, waiting for more than the length of time of the song that is supposed to be playing causes a one second burst, the progress bar again goes from 0 to 3 min (in my example) and the next song starts playing from somewhere other than the beginning. If the first dead song was 3 min long and I waited 4 min, then the second song starts at its 1 min mark.
I watched this for quite some time and although it sounds ridiculous, that is what's happening.
Important clues are that the PLAY button works via the GUI and the title bar flips with it to say paused, but otherwise the button is useless. Hitting the progress ball makes it start to play the song. Progress bar goes form 0 to end of song in about 1 second regardless of song length when the issue crops up which is very often. I can't get 5 songs to play in a row.
Version: 2.97