Rhythmbox consistently fails on new installs trying to scan large home directory

[Dave Vree]

I have a home directly with a lot of files (about 100GB...maybe 500,000 files) -- mostly for software development purposes.

Everytime I do a fresh install of 12.04 (x64) I have a problem with Rhythmbox whereby when I first run it, it hangs for about 5 seconds every 3 seconds. Then after about 1 minute it totally freezes. Rhythmbox reports about 3000 import errors regarding misc files in my home directory (that aren't even song files). I am unable to import any songs from my library (about 5,000 songs).

My workaround is to use dconf-editor to remove my home directory from rythmdb/locations (leaving ubuntuOne alone). I also have to delete the ~/.local/share/applications/rhythmbox directory as well.

After that it starts normally and I can import my library and it works great from then on. I feel that this is a pretty serious issue that Ubuntu's default music player hangs and freezes on a brand new installation...before a user even gets a change to change any settings!

[Paul Whipp (paul-whipp)]

I have a similar problem with a similar sized home folder in Ubuntu 13.10 x64.

I can't find any reference to rhythmbox if I launch dconf-editor or I would try the workaround. rhythmbox is unusable on my system. I've tried re-installing it to no avail.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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