Project

General

Profile

Bug #507

Desktop Notifications plug-in shows incorrect album cover if current file does not contain one

Added by Michael Steenbeek about 9 years ago. Updated about 9 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Minor
Assignee:
-
Category:
plugins/notify
Target version:
Start date:
February 06, 2015
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Affects version:

Description

When playing a song with an embedded album cover, the Desktop Notification plug-in will show it in the notification. But if you play a song afterwards that does not contain one, the notification will contain the album cover of the previous song.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Play a song with an embedded album cover and the Desktop Notification plug-in active.
-> A notification with the album cover will be shown
2) Without closing Audacious, play another song that doesn't contain one.
-> A notification with the album cover of the previous song will be shown.

To me, it seems like a simple oversight in the album cover setting code (not setting a new one since the file doesn't contain one, but not resetting the old one either).

(By the way, I could not find the correct category in the list below.)

37.png (1.67 MB) 37.png Michael Steenbeek, February 06, 2015 11:37

History

#1 Updated by Michael Steenbeek about 9 years ago

It seems I cannot edit the description.
The steps to reproduce should read as follows (not crossed out!):

Steps to reproduce:
1) Play a song with an embedded album cover and the Desktop Notification plug-in active.

A notification with the album cover will be shown

2) Without closing Audacious, play another song that doesn't contain one.

A notification with the album cover of the previous song will be shown.

#2 Updated by Juan Eugenio Abadie about 9 years ago

Michael Steenbeek wrote:

It seems I cannot edit the description.
The steps to reproduce should read as follows (not crossed out!):

Steps to reproduce:
1) Play a song with an embedded album cover and the Desktop Notification plug-in active.

A notification with the album cover will be shown

2) Without closing Audacious, play another song that doesn't contain one.

A notification with the album cover of the previous song will be shown.

I couldn't reproduce it in version 3.6-beta1 on Arch Linux.

#3 Updated by Michael Steenbeek about 9 years ago

I just tried version 3.6-beta1. This version shows the correct generic icon if you stop the current song first and then play another, but still shows the wrong cover if you start the new song while the old one is still playing.

#4 Updated by Juan Eugenio Abadie about 9 years ago

I tried playing another song while the old one (with the cover) is still playing and works as expected for me. Did you compile also "audacious-plugins" 3.6-beta1?

#5 Updated by Juan Eugenio Abadie about 9 years ago

I've just installed audacious and audacious-plugins 3.5.2 and couldn't reproduce the error. It may be an environment problem? I will go on trying to reproduce it.

#6 Updated by Michael Steenbeek about 9 years ago

My OS is Ubuntu 14.10, x86_64. I always use the Winamp interface. My audacious-plugins are also at 3.6-beta1.
Tested it again today with the following files, in this order:
1) One with an album cover
2) One without
3) Another one with an album cover
4) Another one without

Strangely, it did correctly show a generic icon for file 2, but not for 4. Apparently it doesn't happen with every file.
Perhaps you can reproduce it with several files in a row?

#7 Updated by John Lindgren about 9 years ago

  • Category set to plugins/notify
  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • Target version set to 3.6
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
  • Affects version 3.6-beta1 added
  • Affects version deleted (3.5.2)

I can't reproduce this under XFCE right now, but I have seen it in the past.
https://github.com/audacious-media-player/audacious-plugins/commit/825b717f3f5b36a4d125c7af9773fbf1535b5d8c

#8 Updated by Michael Steenbeek about 9 years ago

The commit you pointed to solves another problem entirely. The problem here is not that the notify plugin shows an old notification, but that it shows a notification for the current song with the album cover of the previous one.

#9 Updated by Michael Steenbeek about 9 years ago

Wait. Seems I spoke a bit too soon. Sorry about that.

It seems that in the commit has solved notifications showing the wrong album cover.

There is just a little thing though: with this patch, changing the song when the old notification is still on the screen does not cancel the old notification.
Meaning that, if you skip a few times, it will show notifications for all the songs you skipped, one after another. (To see this, start a playlist, then press Skip five times or so). Hopefully this can be ironed out as well before the release of 3.6.

#10 Updated by John Lindgren about 9 years ago

That's a bug in your notification daemon. Nothing we can do about it.

#11 Updated by Michael Steenbeek about 9 years ago

It didn't do that before applying the patch, though.

#12 Updated by Michael Steenbeek about 9 years ago

Or, more specifically: it didn't do that in the 3.6beta1 version, compiled by Webupd8, that I used before checking out Git and compiling.

#13 Updated by John Lindgren about 9 years ago

Of course it didn't. It used to reuse the same notification; that's why you saw the old album art hanging around. The only way to fix that problem is to create a new notification, and then you have the possibility of the old notification hanging around. There's no perfect solution.

Also available in: Atom PDF