https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448751
Bug ID: 448751
Summary: Media Player Closes When Switching Songs in Music
Playlists
Product: plasma-mediacenter
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: MediaPlayer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
When VLC is playing from a playlist, window focused or not, the Media Player
widget in the Plasma Panel will close when the song changes. Happens with
manual song changes in both the Media Player and in VLC, and happens when VLC
automatically changes songs from the previous song ending.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open VLC Media Player.
2. Begin playback of a playlist in VLC (repeat and shuffle settings don't
matter).
3. Observe the Plasma Media Player's icon appearing in the Plasma Panel.
4. Wait for the current song to finish playback, or skip to near the end to
save time.
5. Observe the 'Stop media playback' icon appearing where the 'Play' icon was
on the Plasma Media Player widget.
6. Plasma Media Player widget disappears from the Plasma Panel.
OBSERVED RESULT
Plasma Media Player disappears from the Plasma Panel unexpectedly during music
playlist playback, often making it impossible to use Plasma Media Player
default shortcuts (ex. Play/Pause, Next, Previous) to control playback of the
playlist afterwards. I say often because inputting the shortcuts still works
briefly after the widget disappears.
Also, disabling the default media player shortcuts for:
Media playback next
Media playback previous
Pause media playback
Media volume up
Media volume down
and using my own custom shortcuts in place of them, causes those media controls
to continue to function when the widget is not visible. The same is not true
for:
Play/Pause media playback
Play media playback
Stop media playback
EXPECTED RESULT
Plasma Media Player remains in the Plasma Panel during music playlist playback,
allowing the user to use media player control shortcuts to pause/play playback
normally.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Kernel: 5.15.12-1-default
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.89.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This also occurs with the Elisa music player. I don't know about other music
players but assume the media player behaves similarly with them.
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