WMA files not playing in Rhythmbox 0.12 with crossfading enabled Jaunty

[wjwaugh]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

My entire music library played with no problem using Intrepid and whatever version of Rhythmbox it included. Since upgrading to the beta Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty which includes Rhythmbox 0.12, wma files will not play with crossfade enabled. Crossfade off, no problems, crossfade on, files won't play and if I try to close Rhythmbox it says it isn't responding and gives me a 'force quit' dialog. Files play in totem, etc... but even within Rhythmbox, if crossfading is off.

I have seen some references to this bug dated back in 2008, but the fact that I was experiencing no problems in Ubuntu 8.10 with whatever version of rhythmbox that had and I am now with 9.04 and rhythmbox 0.12 leads me to believe if there was a fix, it was not included in this distribution.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, may you please get a rhythmbox debug log with rhythmbox --debug &> rhythmbox-debug.txt perform the operation to reproduce the bug and attach that resulting file to the report? thanks in advance.

[wjwaugh (williamwaugh)]

Also, I don't know if I was clear enough before... this is limited to wma files with crossfade enabled... MP3's, etc... play fine with crossfade enabled.

[KuriKai (eunbolt-gmail)]

I would just like to add that same thing happens in 64bit jaunty

[Ubuntusho (ubuntusho)]

I have exactly the same problem, my lspci is this

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

Also, in previous versions i didn't experienced that problem :D

Congratulations for your magnificent work!!!!!!!!!!

[torstenaf (afguy)]

"Me too!"

I have 64-bit Jaunty, upgraded from Intrepid.

Rhythmbox crashes when trying to play wma files with crossfade enabled. They play fine with crossfade disabled. In addition, when crossfade is enabled, I cannot do Music-->Quit and shutdown Rhythmbox - it just crashes and I have to force-kill. It then leaves a zombie process that I have to manually kill from the command line, or else I cannot start Rhythmbox again.

With flac and wav, Rhythmbox works as expected with crossfade enabled.

I would like to recommend that you either support crossfade with wma files on 64-bit Jaunty, or you at least make it so that Rthythmbox gracefully handles the failure and doesn't crash.

Thanks!

[Meluco (daniel-banobre-dopico)]

ug #127553 reported by Georg Duffner on 2007-07-22
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/127553
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424836

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the upstream bug is closed as fixed though, somebody having the issue needs to open a new one

[exactt (giesbert)]

i can confirm the issue. will attach a log.

[bmdavis (bdafrica)]

Confirmed in Jaunty again, once restarted with crossfading disabled it was ok. Thanks.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

As Sebastien said, somebody needs to open a new bug about it at bugzilla.gnome.org since the previous one was fixed. thanks.

[bartje (bart-deruyter)]

I've got the same problem here. Changing the audio settings in Gnome preferences from pulse-audio to Alsa, makes a difference. wma files are being played, but chopped terribly. It's impossible to hear the song. Using Alsa as setting in Gnome does not make rhythmbox hang though.

[Josh Matthews (joshmatthews)]

Looks like somebody opened up a new upstream bug about it, but it's not receiving any love unfortunately.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581894

[wjwaugh (williamwaugh)]

This is resolved (for me at least) with a fresh install of Karmic Koala (Rhythmbox 0.12.5, ubuntu 9.10)