Music Lens

[UIFE] Previews: Unable to preview banshee songs in the dash

Bug #1054720 reported by Owais Lone on 2012-09-22

This bug affects 13 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Music Lens	Fix Committed	Medium	Paweł Stołowski
unity-lens-music (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned
Quantal	Won't Fix	Medium	Unassigned
Raring	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

I removed Rhythmbox and installed Banshee. My music collection does show up in the music lens and it opens the albums in banshee but I'm not able to preview individual tracks inside dash. The play/pause icons toggle but the music doesn't play.

====== UIFE ====
Banshee preview was displayed before, but wasn't functional (no play/show in folder button, track playback via music-preview-player wasn't working). This change fixes that so that banshee preview looks/behaves just like existing rhythmbox preview.

This change is isolated and only activated if Banshee is installed.

= Translations are not affected =

= This does not defer from the other music previews so the existing documentation should work =

See original description

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Related branches

lp://staging/~stolowski/unity-lens-music/banshee-previews

Merged into lp://staging/unity-lens-music at revision 111

Michal Hruby (community): Approve on 2012-09-28

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2012-09-23

Changed in unity:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Nick Dedekind (nick-dedekind) on 2012-09-25

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Paweł Stołowski (stolowski) on 2012-09-25

Changed in unity-lens-music:
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Medium
assignee:	nobody → Pawel Stolowski (stolowski)

Revision history for this message

Nick Dedekind (nick-dedekind) wrote on 2012-09-25:

Problem is in lens, not unity.

no longer affects:

unity

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2012-09-25

no longer affects:	unity (Ubuntu)
Changed in unity-lens-music (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Confirmed

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2012-09-25

Changed in unity-lens-music:
status:	Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity-lens-music (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) on 2012-09-26

tags:

added: amd64 apport-bug package-qa-testing quantal running-unity third-party-packages

Paweł Stołowski (stolowski) on 2012-09-26

summary:

- Previews: Unable to preview music in dash after uninstalling rhythmbox
+ Previews: Unable to preview banshee songs in the dash

Paweł Stołowski (stolowski) on 2012-09-26

Changed in unity-lens-music:
status:	Triaged → In Progress

Paweł Stołowski (stolowski) on 2012-09-28

summary:

- Previews: Unable to preview banshee songs in the dash
+ [UIFE] Previews: Unable to preview banshee songs in the dash

Paweł Stołowski (stolowski) on 2012-09-28

description:	updated
Changed in unity-lens-music:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Neil J. Patel (njpatel) on 2012-09-28

description:	updated
description:	updated

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Dave Walker (davewalker) wrote on 2012-09-28:

Could a screenshot of before and after be attached please? I think that will help demonstrate the requested change.

Thanks.

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Neil J. Patel (njpatel) wrote on 2012-09-28:

Hi Dave, this doesn't defer from the other Music previews (like: http://cloudfront.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/music-player-preview-in-unity.jpg), uses the same code just we had to write the smarts to send the right data from Banshee.

I dont' run Banshee but if it's still desirable to have a shot of an album that is in Banshee, I'll ask the devs to make one. Thanks.

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote on 2012-09-28:

As discussed with popey on #ubuntu-release, this does not appear to be a critical bug that should be allowed to break U/I freeze post beta 2. Adding functionality that is merely missing and not broken for integration with a non-default application is the kind of polish that should land much earlier if it's going to land.

Changed in unity-lens-music (Ubuntu Quantal):
status:	Triaged → Won't Fix

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nuttzo33 (slucas1979) wrote on 2012-10-03:

Screenshot from 2012-10-03 23:01:52.png Edit (457.9 KiB, image/png)

I have the same problem with banshee installed and no rhythmbox, clicking on the song will make it play in banshee as expected but the play preview button doesn't work. Also the track length of the songs is messed up
i have attached a screenshot.

With rhythmbox installed it works as expected and track times are correct.

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Oier Mees (oier) wrote on 2012-10-20:

Just upgraded to 12.10 and I can confirm shaynes issue, I also only use Banshee and the preview doesn't work and the track length is also messed up.

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Raymond Wells (rfw2nd) wrote on 2012-10-20:

I think it should be reviewed again, because it broke things on my desktop with both banshee and rhythmbox installed. It will confuse a user who has upgraded from 12.04 and expects things to just work. If it isn't going to be fixed, I think the music previews should just be disabled or made to show only the album art, track and artist name when Banshee is the default music player.

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote on 2012-10-20:

I don't think this actually changes the UI; it just allows Banshee to be used as the backend in addition to Rhythmbox. If so, this doesn't need a UIFe. Whether it needs a feature freeze exception is debatable.

I think the Release Team should reconsider, if their assumption that this was yet another UIFe.

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote on 2013-03-08:

For the avoidance of doubt, I consider this fine to upload into Raring if it can be done before UIF (assuming it has not been already). I'm unsubscribing the release team now.

Paweł Stołowski (stolowski) on 2013-03-08