When shuffle is checkboxed and a user chooses a new Artist, Album or All, Rhythmbox will select the song from the top of the matching list, play it before playing a random selection. Shouldn't it play a random song from the selected category immediately? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Rhythmbox 2. Check "shuffle" at the lower left corner 3. double-click on "all" in artist or album list Actual Results: the first song on the list will be played Expected Results: a random song from the list should play instead Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors1.netvisao.pt/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X acpi alsa apm bitmap-fonts cdr cups dvd dvdr foomaticdb gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal java jpeg mad mmx mozilla mpeg ncurses network nls no-old-linux nptl nvidia offensive oggvorbis opengl pam pic png ppds quicktime readline real samba sdl spell sse ssl svg svga tcpd theora truetype unicode wmf xml xml2 xprint zlib"
i had to read the report to even know what app this was about. this should be filed upstream.
reporter: has this been fixed in later versions, or does this still need to be reported upstream?
There hasn't been any later version, except for CVS, wich I haven't tried. I've tried this on an Ubuntu GNU/Linux box and it behaves the same way. So I guess this is a Rhythmbox issue (or "feature"). Maybe this bug should be closed for now, until a new Rhythmbox version appears.
This has been reported upstream, and supposedly fixed in CVS. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140231 Please attach a patch if you want this issue backported to 0.8.8 from CVS.
