Rhytmbox: I can't seek & the progress bar doesn't move along the song

[Aulia Ardianto]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

The progress bar is freezing, but with some song it moves but i still can't seek the song

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Dec 23 12:48:58 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.5-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

[Alex Bruce (alexbruce7)]

affecting me. may be related to Bug #284612

music plays as normal and moves on once finished etc but you cannot use the progress bar at all (some may call it a seek bar maybe).

restarted rhythmbox a number of times. no luck. restarted pulseaudio as indicated in the related bug. no luck. restarted pc and bug is still present!!

I am using fully patched ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix edition on a eeepc 701. the problem dos not effect totem at all. pulseaudio seems to be working ok with all the usual controls.

i dont use rhythmbox often but im sure ive used it without this bug.

[Alex Bruce (alexbruce7)]

ok upon further investigation.

i tried the same on a fresh new user and the problem didnt occur for the test user. so obviously something user profile/settings related

back under my normal user, I noted that in the list each song listed its "time" as unknown also. obviously rhythmbox needs this data to provide the progress/seek bar. so removed all music in the list, restarted rhythmbox and re-added through the normal import folder method and all the times came back and progress bar works fine.

well that solved my issue anyway.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

closing the bug then, thanks.

[Aleksey Kiryanov (underwor)]

This annoying bag was opened and closed for last 3-4 years as I can search. It's affected me too (Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04, rhythmbox 0.12.8). I tryed reimport my music folders, but it was useless. So it's still here.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Please open a new bug report, that might be a different issue, thanks.