rhyhtmbox: high cpu-usage when playing music from second hard drive

[Alexander Kallenbach]

As described above. When I'm playing music from my second hard drive, which isn't auto-mounted, rhyhtmbox produces a high cpu-usage. In fact one of my four cpus is used completely by the process rhythmbox-metadata.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: rhythmbox 2.98-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-17.27-generic 3.8.6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 12 16:56:54 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-03 (159 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-05 (6 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Leo Tindle (leonexis)]

I have a similar issue. I have a AMD A8 quad core laptop with 8gb RAM, fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04. In my case, my primary drive is an SSD and my secondary drive (also mounted in the laptop) is a standard HDD. All the music is on the secondary HDD and it /is/ auto-mounted at boot. Every time I start rhythmbox up, rhythmbox-metadata takes up 25% CPU (100% of one core). This does not appear to be an issue with changing files while rhythmbox is closed. It already loaded the entire collection (6198 songs, 56.8gb) but still it takes 100% CPU. I did not have this problem when I was using amarok on Kubuntu 12.10.

If it makes any difference, I have a symlink from /home/<username>/Music on the SSD to /media/store/media/Music, which is the location of the music on the HDD.

Please let me know if there is any additional information I can provide.

[Lalo Martins (lalo.martins)]

Similar, 13.04. None of rhythmbox, gnome, pulse, gstreamer, python, or gtk are affected by any PPAs, in fact as far as I can see none of the dependencies. In my case the music is in a multi-volume BTRFS mount which is auto-mounted. I don't see rhythmbox-metadata in my process list at all, instead it's the rhythmbox process itself that takes 100% of one CPU. The UI is often grey. Oddly, audio reproduction itself almost never glitches, but responding to multimedia keys or the buttons in the indicator widget sometimes takes up to a minute.

[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)]

[Expired for rhythmbox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]