playback hangs every few songs

[Paul Smith]

I'm using Banshee because I need Amazon download integration (plus all my ratings etc. are in Banshee).

So I have a playlist based on my highest-rated songs. I double-click it to start playing and I have random sort enabled. Every 3rd or 4th song, after it's done playing the previous song and switches to the new song, the playback hangs: it just doesn't play anything. The timing slider doesn't move, nothing plays. Banshee is still in play mode, not paused. I can click the pause/play button as many times as I want but nothing happens.

However if I click on the playback slider and drag it slightly, then the song starts playing and continues on working just fine... until a few more songs when it gets stuck again. This only ever happens right when a new song is started: it never happens in the middle of a song. Rinse, repeat, forever.

~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04

~$ apt-cache policy banshee
banshee:
  Installed: 2.4.0-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.4.0-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.4.0-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status