Bugzilla – Bug 9364
Alarm should end when the alarm playlist is replaced
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:21:15 UTC
People on the forums have suggested that an active alarm should end when the user replaces the alarm playlist with something else. Siduhe puts it well: "Alarm Playlist=alarm active and icon flashing. Different playlist is no longer an alarm scenario but a listening session." This is easily done, so I'm opening this bug as a vote holder. At the moment an alarm stops when you stop the music. I intentionally allowed the playlist to be replaced in order to let people change the the music but still use snooze. Does anyone want to keep the old behaviour?
Choosing another thing to play is enough evidence that they are up, imho. If they want they can use the sleep button...
This isn't easily done at the moment as its hard to stop the alarm being immediately stopped by 'playlist playtracks|loadtracks' commands that result from the alarm itself. Bug 9243 should hopefully make this easier. Having thought about this a bit more, I'd be happier doing this as a 7.3 fix, as the alarm stop mechanism is pretty fragile, so anything that changes it is inherently risky.
The doc changes are in 7.2, by the way.
Apologies - wrong bug! Please ignore the previous comment.
Not required for the 7.3 release.
Moving to future for now, if you disagree, please target appropriately