Binary package hint: rhythmbox
If I have Firefox open and I then launch rythmbox, I have no audio and no indication audio is playing (track progress bar does not move). This happens with both locally stored MP3s as well as online streams. When I try to select an online stream, rythmbox shows "buffering" and even displays the title/artist info but then seems to stop. If I close down the browser and then launch rythmbox, it works great. When I later launch firefox, everything keeps working unless I pause or stop playback. In that case, I cannot restart and must shut down the browser again. I don't think I can put all the blame on rythmbox however, as I have seen similar symptoms with amarok. I have reinstalled both apps, no change. I seem to have no trouble streaming directly from sites that support it through the browser. I am running 8.04 on an older Intel machine, rythmbox 0.11.5.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 6 23:05:05 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
Package: rhythmbox 0.11.5-0ubuntu8
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686
the issue could be due to flash, does it happen after going on a website using it?