won't play from a samba share

[SilverLoz]

Rhythmbox 2.98-0ubuntu5 0 running on Ubuntu 13.04

This is a long-standing problem that occasionally gets fixed (see Bug #60326 and Bug #404218 ) but seems to re-occur with subsequent releases.

All my mp3s are stored on a desktop PC on my home network in a directory shared via Samba. I can set this as the music library for Rhythmbox on my laptop and Rhythmbox scans it OK over the network. However, when it comes to playback on my laptop, I hear the first half a second of a track then silence. The track timer continues to move, as if playing back but there's no sound.

If I navigate to the shared folder in Nautilus and double-click an mp3, it plays back fine in Totem.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop ISO of the development release - Trusty Tahr. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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