Rhythmbox becomes unresponsive when navigating through long song files using the progress bar

[Ghislain Vaillant]

When reading long audio files such as a recorded podcast, using the progress bar to listen to a specific portion of the audio file sometimes freezes Rhythmbox. It becomes unresponsive, only option is to kill it by a "force to close" or using the terminal. It happened to me with audio files of length varying from 5 minutes to 2 hours. Tested file format was mp3.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: rhythmbox 2.95-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.28-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 5 10:54:05 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

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!.

[Ghislain Vaillant (ghisvail)]

Reproduced the bug, please find the debug log attached.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Sent upstream - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671352

Please try installing gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly package and report back here - this might help

[Ghislain Vaillant (ghisvail)]

I installed ubuntu-restricted-extras before using Rhythmbox, which should have pulled all the gstreamer plugins (ffmpeg, bad, ugly and fluendo). I double-checked my installation anyway, the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly is installed.

[Ghislain Vaillant (ghisvail)]

Same thing happens with Banshee (2.3.6), perhaps a gstreamer related bug then ?

[Bence Lukács (lukacs-bence1)]

Also affects me on Precise, rhythmbox 2.96
I have a 41:19 long mp3 file, it's 100 mb, and if I try to navigate through the progress bar, it'll freeze, and the only thing I can to kill it.

[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.

[Ghislain Vaillant (ghisvail)]

This bug no longer applies to neither Ubuntu 12.04.4 nor 14.04.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Reporter in comment #9 says no longer an issue
No comments from any other user for over 5 years
Upstream report has moved to
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/rhythmbox/issues/1163
but has seen no activity for 7 years
Not an issue here with rhythmbox 3.4.3 and Ubuntu 20.04 (dev)
So closing as fixed.