Rhythmbox track progress bar doesn't work when playing mp3s

[Jazz Williams]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Rhythmbox doesn't display position in the song and cannot be used to skip to a new position in the song. Unlike what I saw on other previous bug reports, the timer on the right DOES work properly and the player WILL advance to the next song, it just never displays any progress.

Using Rhythmbox version 0.12.0-0ubuntu4
in Ubuntu 9.04.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
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 2.6.28-15-generic x86_64

[Jazz Williams (jasper-williams)]

I've discovered that this bug actually comes and goes. Sometimes it uses the progress bar and other times it doesn't. It seems to depend on the song. Some mp3s will display the progress bar and others will not. Even the ones that do do not seem to allow skipping forward within the song.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
 * Do you get the issue on any mp3 example?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[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!.

[Andrew Moiseenko (cppdes)]

System: ubuntu 9.10
Rhythmbox: 0.12.5
Is this reproducible? - Yes, seek bar never work since system installation.
If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? -
Do you get the issue on any mp3 example? - all mp3s

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We have a new rhythmbox version in Lucid. If you could test this bug in the new 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 relevant for this particular issue so it can be reported to the developers of the software.

[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!.

[Tristan Schmelcher (tschmelcher)]

I had this bug on 9.10 too. I just updated to 10.04 and the bug is still here. The progress bar never moves and cannot be used to skip forwards. But the timer does work and the player does advance to the next song.

I don't know what you meant by providing "updated logs" though. I don't know where Rhythmbox's logs are ...

FYI, the bug repros very consistently for me. I haven't found any song where the progress bar works.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

don't reopen closed bugs, open a new bug rather there

[Tristan Schmelcher (tschmelcher)]

Okay, opened as bug 574563.

[Ashish Verma (ashishverma-pu)]

This bug is permanent in rhythmbox.
works fine with some mp3s
may be some codec compatibility problem or something like that....

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

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. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Bug report did not expire due to assignment
No reply to comment #13 over 5 years ago which asked for
confirmation that the issue still exists
Seems to work fine here with rhythmbox 3.4.3 in Ubuntu 20.04 (dev)
Last report of problem was 8 years ago so closing as fixed