Issue with quodlibet operation

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I have Ubuntu Fallback 24.04.4. I have used quodlibet for years with no issues.

Last week, the program stopped advancing to the next song automatically after always behaving that way.

I have checked all settings plus addons (I do not use any). Nothing has changed in those areas. After checking all that, I removed the program from my system and then reinstalled it. No help at all.

There are no messages in any system logs. I am at a loss. Any help would be appreciated.

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Forgive my ignorance, but what is Ubuntu Fallback?

There is no reference to Ubuntu Fallback in the release notes and it’s not a Ubuntu flavor.

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Sorry about the misnomer. I should have entered Ubuntu Flashback.

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There is no such Ubuntu flavor, either. Having said that, what does Quodlibet do instead, when it doesn’t advance to the next song? Does it keep playing the same song over and over or does it just stop? Maybe you inadvertently flicked some playback mode switch, possibly by a keyboard shortcut.

The “Stop After This Song” setting comes to mind, which can be toggled by ShiftSpace.

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I think we are referring to the gnome-session- flashback desktop environment in this particular case.

@cscj01 it is kind of important to be precise; makes it easier for us to offer help.

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Keeps playing the same song over and over.

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Then I’d suspect the “One song” repeat mode being active or “Repeat this song”.

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I provided a link to official Ubuntu flavors and none of them include a Ubuntu Flashback.

There are a number of Ubuntu remixs that include the word flashback, but they’re remixs and unofficial based on products that are off-topic here for support (eg. Ubuntu Unity Flashback as example)

What you’re using is still unclear sorry.

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I would have to say this is what I am running.

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No, that is not active. I have checked all the file:preferences and file plugins and these have never been changed by me. I can send a list of these settings if anyone thinks that will help. Plus, I completely removed quodlibet, checked to see if there were any directories related to quod libet (there were not), and reinstalled. Same problem was still there. I am beginning to think my only option may be to upgrade to 26.04.1.

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I’m not a user of quodlibet (I use either audacious or clementine, depending), but if I understand the documentation at https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html right, then the great strength of this player is that it can be controlled and configured from the command line. So I would try quodlibet --repeat=off --repeat-type=off (options found in the man-page for quodlibet at the site).

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It’s a simple option, to be toggled at the bottom of the window.

Then you didn’t look hard enough, I guess, because you must have missed ~/.config/quodlibet/config.

$ grep repeat ~/.config/quodlibet/config
repeat = False
repeat_mode = one_song

That will likely not change anything, I’m afraid.

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That took care of the problem. Thank you for your assistance.

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So it was just the repeat mode. You should double-check that it stick by running without those arguments.

Also, take a close :glasses: at the bottom left of the screenshot in the docs, @hdd-gehrke linked to. :wink: But I repeat myself:

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