Signal-desktop: Sending a message often stops voice message playback

Created on 21 Mar 2020 · 17Comments · Source: signalapp/Signal-Desktop

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Bug Description

Sending a message while a voice message is playing often (but not always) stops and resets voice message playback. Same thing happens when scrolling so that the voice message is out of view. Android doesn't behave like that, so I'm assuming it's not intended.

Steps to Reproduce

start playing back a voice message
type a message and hit Enter

Actual Result:

voice message usually stops playing and resets to 0:00

Expected Result:

voice message continues playing

Platform Info

Signal Version: 1.32.1

Operating System: Windows 10

Linked Device Version: 4.57.1

Link to Debug Log

https://debuglogs.org/c25dcf5ed1d0296a15a6afc6cf9a7134308c4c0d213c8c5d12218de6d56f51c3

Bug

Source

haffenloher

Most helpful comment

Just wanted to give an update here: this is still on our radar and we haven't forgotten about it.

EvanHahn-Signal on 18 Dec 2020

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All 17 comments

@haffenloher how far back is the voice message in the list? If it's a bit far back off the window's viewport then it's probably recycled/removed from the UI to improve scroll performance. I've tested sending short messages while the voice recording is still in view and it continues playing.

josh-signal on 23 Mar 2020

@josh-signal What happens for me is this: I receive a voice message, click the play button and send a reply while it's still playing and fully in view, at which point playback usually stops and resets to 0:00.

Edit: somehow I can't reproduce it right now, but this has been bugging me for months :(

haffenloher on 23 Mar 2020

@haffenloher yeah you mentioned it doesn't always happen. I'll keep looking out for it and see if I can reproduce it.

josh-signal on 23 Mar 2020

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Just happened again in a very long thread (not sure if that matters):

My reply on the bottom right stopped and reset the voice message playback.

https://debuglogs.org/2eb937bb50dd2495034267eec720d292641f3d5c7c07a80cf76e5e318b983f21

haffenloher on 24 Mar 2020

@haffenloher how far along were you on playback before it reset? Can you describe more details on the steps you took that reproduced it? Does it reproduce reliably or still intermittently?

josh-signal on 24 Mar 2020

Intermittently. If it happens once, it never happens a second time with that same voice message (I think?). Will try to describe in more detail:

just received an 8 second voice message
I pressed play
I selected an emoji from the emoji picker and sent it by pressing the Enter key when the voice message was at 4 seconds
Voice message resets
I pressed play again
Wrote and sent another short message at 4 seconds, this time nothing happened.

haffenloher on 25 Mar 2020

I think this only happens when there's an "x unread messages" divider (which disappears when I send my message).

haffenloher on 4 Apr 2020

@haffenloher I just tried this exact same scenario and with the unread messages divider and couldn't repro :( I'm trying on both MacOS and Windows. Will continue 👀out for this

josh-signal on 9 Apr 2020

Weird 😕 I can consistently reproduce this when the divider is there.

haffenloher on 9 Apr 2020

@haffenloher I'm going to try and build an example of your reproducible scenario in storybook to see if I can get it to reproduce there. In the meantime, would it be possible for you to take a screen capture/gif of the bug?

josh-signal on 9 Apr 2020

Here you go:

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haffenloher on 10 Apr 2020

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Just noticed that resizing the window / changing its width also resets voice message playback every time.

haffenloher on 30 Apr 2020

@josh-signal I have the same bug, when I reply the message and also then resizing the window.
Also this when I reply to specific message, any message, the problem perssist.
Signal version v1.34.1
Windows 10 version 2004

Any help I can deliver please let me know