rhythmbox freezes if internet drops while listening to internet radio

[dhanushka]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

I listen to this online radio channel - mmsh://220.247.227.6/live?MSWMExt=.asf
If internet connection drops this source will not continue even after the connection established, then rhythmbox freezes.
I have to force quit.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.0-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

[Josh Kupershmidt (schmiddy)]

I also experienced a crash when attempting to listen to this particular radio station. In my case, the stream didn't even start (not sure if I couldn't connect, or lacked the proper codec), but RB became unresponsive after attempting to play the stream. I also had to forcibly kill RB.

I did confirm that rhythmbox did not crash when listening to another internet radio station ( http://ubuntu.hbr1.com:19800/tronic.ogg ) when internet access was turned off, so I suspect there is a problem with RB's handling of .asf streams in general or possibly just with the particular stream ( mmsh://220.247.227.6/live?MSWMExt=.asf ) in question.

I'm using Rhythmbox 0.11.6 (0.11.6svn20081008-0ubuntu4) i386 on Ubuntu 8.10.

[Josh Kupershmidt (schmiddy)]

Marking this bug confirmed, as I was able to confirm myself.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Josh Kupershmidt (schmiddy)]

Thanks, Sebastien. I created a bug upstream in Gnome's bugzilla and added some more details there:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588486