copy all tracks to library while playing back the same cd stutters, thrashes

[Wolfgang Kufner]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

reproduce:
put audio cd in drive
open with rhythmbox
start playing the cd
now press the button to copy all tracks to library
rhythmbox tries to do this as well as continue to play the cd, but this does not succeed well. the playback stutters while the drive audibly seeks back and forth between the playback position and the copy position.
the rhythmbox window greys out (unresponsive). when clicking play again to stop playback nothing happens because of that. I clicked again and after 10 to 15 seconds the program stopped playback and proceeded with the copying just fine now.

possible solutions:
a) refuse to do it simultanously if that cannot be done well
b) use caching; it's changing too frequently between playback and copy position;

if it allowed the user to stop playback in a straightforward way it would only be half bad. with the unresponsiveness and greying out it begins to really look bad. impatient users will kill the window instead.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, may you please get a rhythmbox debug log by running rhythmbox as : rhythmbox --debug &> rhythmbox-debug.txt ; reproduce the issue and attach that resulting log file to the report? Thanks in advance.

[Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner)]

This time it took about a minute and many clicks till the greyed out rhythmbox accepted the click to stop playback.

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Are you using the same CD? Can you try with a different CD to ensure that your CD doesn't have issues, which is causing this?

[Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner)]

2 different cds on 2 notebooks. just tried a third cd. this time it took about 25 seconds to get it to stop playback.

of course this is a "first impression" issue. the user will know better than to attempt this again.
on faster desktop drives it might work, don't know.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

could you please check if you have cross-fading enabled in rhythmbox preferences. disabling it should probably solve the issue for you. also there have been a lot of changes in rhythmbox since this bug was reported and would be really helpful if you could check if the issue is still there with a later version of ubuntu.

[Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner)]

rechecked with maverick and a 2.6.37 kernel:
cross-fading is disabled
still behaves like in the original bug description

[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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for rhythmbox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]