Seek bar doesn't move when a podcast is played without being completely downloaded

[Miguel Diago]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

When you play a podcast without having previously downloaded the file, the "seek bar" doesn't move, even when clicked with the mouse. I'm using the default package in Ubuntu 8.10.

Steps to reproduce:
1- Subscribe to a podcast
2- Double click an element to play it
3- Notice that the seek bar doesn't move

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: rhythmbox 0.11.6svn20081008-0ubuntu4.2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, does the bar moves while playing or not? is your issue specific to manual changes?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

trying on jaunty it starts downloading the episode when playing it and the cursor moves correctly

[kvdb (kc0)]

I've seen the same issue using this feed.
http://www.radio538.nl/clublife/podcast.xml

It seems the problem is with M4A files. Feed or non-feed items.

The seek bar position just stays at the start all the time. User is unable to seek in file.

Didn't try jaunty yet.

I think it's a problem in de codecs? It may be related to #296991

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you add a song example to the bug?

[kvdb (kc0)]

Sure, this file is from the feed and is one of many affected:

http://media.radio538.nl/download/radio538/clubnouveau/podcast/clublife_20090223.m4a

[Daniel Sloof (clearscreen)]

I can also confirm this bug with all the M4A files I have encountered so far.

If you need any more information or a tester, I'm willing to assist.

[kvdb (kc0)]

Tried in Jaunty today. Rhythmbox version is: 0.12.0-0ubuntu4
See no_seeking.png: the seek-bar is not moving and not seekable. The play-time indicator is updating though.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug needs tro be sent to the software writters on bugzilla.gnome.org by somebody having the issue

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

did somebody sent this upstream? may you tell us the bug number there?

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

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. If you could test the current Ubuntu development version, this would help us a lot. If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect 313587, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Jonathan Harker (jonathanharker)]

Running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid:
ii rhythmbox 0.12.7-0ubuntu5 music player and organizer for GNOME
ii rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder 0.12.7-0ubuntu5 burning plugin for rhythmbox music player
ii rhythmbox-plugin-coherence 0.12.7-0ubuntu5 UPnp plugin for rhythmbox music player
ii rhythmbox-plugins 0.12.7-0ubuntu5 plugins for rhythmbox music player
ii rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store 0.0.5-0ubuntu1 Ubuntu One Music Store Rhythmbox plugin

I get the described problem (see attachment). There is a related discussion here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1204619 I'll try out the proposed solution and see what happens. My experience of this bug is that it does not seem to be format-related, where I have observed flac files sometimes doing the same thing, and sometimes behaving correctly. I need to do more testing because I have two separate instances at home and at work and haven't had time to get to the bottom of the pattern (if any).

[Jonathan Harker (jonathanharker)]

Ah - sorry I've commented on the wrong bug! This happens with files in my music collection, not podcasts (too many tabs open!)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

don't reopen closed bugs, open a new bug rather if you have a similar issue and mention this one