Rhythmbox's track progress bar doesn't work

[Tristan Schmelcher]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

When playing most songs in Rhythmbox, the track progress bar doesn't move. It stays at the beginning and cannot be dragged to seek either. The current play time at the top-right displays correctly though, and Rhythmbox does advance to the next song when the current one is complete.

I have noticed that the songs for which the progress bar doesn't work all have Unknown for their Time column in the library. The songs for which the progress bar _does_ work show their correct time there. So obviously that's the root problem.

This bug is the same as bugs 442304, 459571, 499708, but I have been directed to open a new one. The workaround described on bug 499708 did not work for me. Removing all songs from the library and then re-importing them doesn't fix the problem of the Time column being Unknown for most songs.

FYI, I observed this problem back in Karmic too.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.8-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 3 08:41:19 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better, however the report is missing some information, may you please run rhythmbox as: rhythmbox --debug &> rhythmbox-debug.txt ; perform the steps to reproduce the bug and attach that resulting log file to the report? Thanks in advance!.

[Tristan Schmelcher (tschmelcher)]

I see several occurrences of this:

[rb_shell_player_get_playing_song_duration] rb-shell-player.c:3363: Did not get playing entry : return -1 as length

That may help track down the problem.

[Patrick (wushumasters)]

I have the same problem and just happen with mp3 files

[Patrick (wushumasters)]

I resolved this problem installing the package "gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly" and then put the musics in rhythmbox again

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue seems be when gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg is used for mp3 decoding

[Till (till-fischer)]

Sebastien Bacher is correct, uninstalling gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg solved the issue for me.

[jk (mail-j-k)]

gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg wasn't installed on my system and I had the same problem. However installing gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly got rid of the issue.

(rhythmbox 0.13.1-0ubuntu5, Ubuntu 10.10 x86)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Jon Elofson (jon-elofson)]

In 13.10, I find this only happens with music that is stored on my NAS, mounted locally at /media/whatever

[Ashish Verma (ashishverma-pu)]

Hi Jon,

Do you need any of my comments here?

Regards,

Ashish Verma

Sent from my nexus
On Jan 18, 2014 9:16 AM, "Jon Elofson" <email address hidden> wrote:

> In 13.10, I find this only happens with music that is stored on my NAS,
> mounted locally at /media/whatever
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574563
>
> Title:
> Rhythmbox's track progress bar doesn't work
>
> Status in “gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: rhythmbox
>
> When playing most songs in Rhythmbox, the track progress bar doesn't
> move. It stays at the beginning and cannot be dragged to seek either.
> The current play time at the top-right displays correctly though, and
> Rhythmbox does advance to the next song when the current one is
> complete.
>
> I have noticed that the songs for which the progress bar doesn't work
> all have Unknown for their Time column in the library. The songs for
> which the progress bar _does_ work show their correct time there. So
> obviously that's the root problem.
>
> This bug is the same as bugs 442304, 459571, 499708, but I have been
> directed to open a new one. The workaround described on bug 499708 did
> not work for me. Removing all songs from the library and then re-
> importing them doesn't fix the problem of the Time column being
> Unknown for most songs.
>
> FYI, I observed this problem back in Karmic too.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: rhythmbox 0.12.8-0ubuntu3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Mon May 3 08:41:19 2010
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: rhythmbox
>
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