rhythmbox stops playing songs after one second

[Satchit Bhogle]

Rhythmbox plays the first second or so of a song and then the audio stops. The slider continues as normal, but there is no audio either from my headphones or speakers. Changing to a different song does the same thing. I have picked a song from the Dash, but subsequently, I tried selecting one from RB, and the same thing happened.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: rhythmbox 2.96-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic-pae 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jun 28 12:13:44 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Satchit Bhogle (satchitb)]

This problem also occurs with Totem, Gloobus Preview and Clementine. Ergo, it is a problem with my sound and not RB. Is there any further information I can provide?

[Satchit Bhogle (satchitb)]

I rebooted, and this problem did not show up. However, I fear that "Have you tried switching it off and on again?" is a poor and very temporary solution to the problem since I've experienced it multiple times.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Markus W (z-mw)]

Same issue here with Rhythmbox under 12.04, however it doesn't happen for all tracks for me. It seems to be limited to music located on my Windows shared folder. Is this happening with music on the local drive for anyone here?

[ToddHeffley (public-toddheffley)]

same issue for me. plays for 1 second then stop.

12.04/gnome

only happens on a NAS attached to my local router.

RB plays MP3's on the local machine just fine

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

I had the same problem in 12.10 and now in 13.04. I closed totem
I installed dconf-tools package, I opened the dconf-editor and pressed "Set to default" for every value under /org/gnome/Totem/ -- now totem doesn't stop after the 1st second.

[Jonathan Strander (mblackwell1024)]

The issue disappears if you switch off visualizations (it seems).

[dst (dast)]

I hadn't had this issue with 12.10. I didn't notice until recently, that with 13.04 Totem stopped playing audio after 1 second.

Switching off visualizations solved it for me. Thanks, Jonathan!