Bug#872704: cantata: Dragging local files into playqueue does not work

[Jonas Wielicki]

Package: cantata
Version: 2.1.0.ds1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

* What led up to the situation?

Cantata normally supports dragging local audio files into the playqueue (even
with a remote mpd; in that case, cantata spawns an HTTP daemon and adds the
HTTP stream to the mpd playqueue).

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?

I tried dragging a local mp3 file from dolphin into the cantata playqueue.

* What was the outcome of this action?

Cantata accepted the drop, but did not add the file to the play queue; no
communication with mpd happened.

* What outcome did you expect instead?

Cantata should add the file to the playqueue and ensure that it gets served via
HTTP for the remote MPD.


Additional hints:

- I tried different audio files, no difference.
- I tried building cantata from source (https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/,
both master branch and v2.1.0 tag), where the feature works correctly(!). It
seems to be something wrong with the debian package or the specific version
used to build that package.
- When building from source, it did not matter whether my firewall was open or
closed.
- This also appears to affect stretch/stable, even though I haven’t checked
whether a build from source works there.


kind regards,
Jonas Wielicki



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages cantata depends on:
ii  fonts-font-awesome    4.7.0~dfsg-3
ii  libavcodec57          7:3.3.3-3
ii  libavformat57         7:3.3.3-3
ii  libavutil55           7:3.3.3-3
ii  libc6                 2.24-14
ii  libcddb2              1.3.2-5
ii  libcdparanoia0        3.10.2+debian-11+b2
ii  libebur128-1          1.2.2-2
ii  libgcc1               1:7.2.0-1
ii  libmpg123-0           1.25.6-1
ii  libmtp9               1.1.13-1
ii  libmusicbrainz5cc2v5  5.1.0+git20150707-6
ii  libqt5concurrent5     5.7.1+dfsg-4
ii  libqt5core5a          5.7.1+dfsg-4
ii  libqt5dbus5           5.7.1+dfsg-4
ii  libqt5gui5            5.7.1+dfsg-4
ii  libqt5network5        5.7.1+dfsg-4
ii  libqt5sql5            5.7.1+dfsg-4
ii  libqt5sql5-sqlite     5.7.1+dfsg-4
ii  libqt5svg5            5.7.1~20161021-2+b2
ii  libqt5widgets5        5.7.1+dfsg-4
ii  libqt5xml5            5.7.1+dfsg-4
ii  libstdc++6            7.2.0-1
ii  libtag-extras1        1.0.1-3.1
ii  libtag1v5             1.11.1+dfsg.1-0.1
ii  libudev1              234-2
ii  libvlc5               2.2.6-3+b1
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages cantata recommends:
ii  liburi-perl  1.72-1

Versions of packages cantata suggests:
ii  media-player-info  22-3
pn  mpd                <none>

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