[breezy] rhythmbox doesn't automatically start after selecting audio file with Nautilus

[Daniel Robitaille]

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[Daniel Robitaille (robitaille)]

After selecting an audio file in Nautilus, rhythmbox starts but doesn't actually
play the audio track. You have to manually import the file in the library
before beeing able to play it. In Hoary the behaviour was that rhythmbox would
simply play the audio file.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug, I've forwarded the issue upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309696

[Daniel Robitaille (robitaille)]

I cannot reproduce this bug anymore on my Breezy box. Was it fixed?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's not supposed to be fixed yet according to the upstream bug and it still
has the issue here. Are you trying with a song already listed by rhythmbox?

[Daniel Robitaille (robitaille)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> that's not supposed to be fixed yet according to the upstream bug and it still
> has the issue here. Are you trying with a song already listed by rhythmbox?

you are right; it is not fixed yet. In some cases it works, and in others it
doesn't. But it mostly doesn't. THe song was probably already in my playlist
when I tried it the other day.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

*** Bug 23783 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

This is still an issue on Dapper (not surprising, the upstream bug report is still open).

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

added upstream task

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Still an issue on Feisty.

[edu jose (pepinmore)]

Still happens in Gutsy (Ubuntu 7.10 alpha 5) using:

    rhythmbox 0.11.2-0ubuntu2
    nautilus 1:2.19.91-0ubuntu1

To reproduce the bug: in Nautilus go to a directory with an .ogg file, double click on it, and an error message pops up [screenshot 1] saying:

    "(name of song) cannot be opened"
    No application suitable for automatic installation
    is available for handling this kind of file.

It seems Nautilus doesn't know about the file association between .ogg files and Rhythmbox, even when it is set in System -> Preferences -> Preferred applications [screenshot 2].

To try it in another way: right-click same file in Nautilus, the context menu has as first entry "Open" (without saying which app to open with), and next entry says "Open with Rhythmbox" [screenshot 3]. Selecting this second option opens up Rhythmbox, but the song doesn't play [screenshot 4].

The only way to listen the .ogg file is (inside Rhythmbox) going to Music -> Import file... and importing the song [screenshot 5].

Very frustrating, hearing a song should not require this amount of work.

Ps: All screenshots, with comments, are combined in attached image.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been fixed upstream now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

rhythmbox (0.11.3-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Allow drag-and-drop of images to the cover art display
    - Allow DAAP shares to be connected to manually
    - Support DAAP smart playlists and radio streams
    - Handle file name being passed on the command line again (LP: #18735)
    - Add "donate to artist" action to Jamendo plugin
    - Support some more lyric sites
    - Improvements and fixes to the cross-fading player
    - Improve UPnP support
    - Improve track importing, especially on generic audio players
    - Allow python plugins to use threads
    - Enable music store plugins by default
    - Support playback from fm radio tuner cards
    - Other bug fixes (LP: #114726, #123470)
  * Sync with Debian
  * debian/control.in:
    - add python-louie Recommends
    - Build-Depends on python-gst0.10, liblaunchpad-integration-dev,
      linux-libc-dev
    - updated python-support version to 0.5.6
    - updated libnotify requirement
    - updated python version to 2.5
  * debian/patches/01_lpi.patch,
    debian/patches/02_autoconf.patch:
    - patches for launchpad-integration
  * debian/patches/06_oggradios.patch:
    - list only ogg stations by default

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:59:47 +0100