rhythmbox stops playback every now and then, mostly at the start of a new song

[Csipak Attila]

I'm playing back a long playlist (~1000 titles) in Rhythmbox, made up of mp3's and some ogg files. Every now and then, playback stops, and nothing happens, until I manually make Rhythmbox jump to the next track, then everything returns to normal.

It happens once in about every ~15-30 minutes (~4-10 songs).

Crossfading is disabled.

The playing is mostly stopped at the very beginning of a new song. I noticed a single occasion, when it stopped after playing 15-20 secs of a song.

It also seems that after a long time (more than 10 minutes) of being practically silent and uninterrupted, the paused song may start playing again.

Right now I'm trying to run Rhythmbox in debug mode, so I can catch some logs with the next bug occurence, stay tuned.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: rhythmbox 2.96-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic-pae 3.2.13
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: e665592ec356650b8c1e4f41698ed522
CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f7770f606350a390a2
Date: Sat Mar 31 10:01:58 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Csipak Attila (corphicks)]

Clipped output of "rhythmbox -d 2> rhythmbox_debug.txt"

At about 12:55:51, the last correctly played title is seen for a couple of lines, and then the problematic title should start, but instead it stays halted at 0:00.

At 13:12:03 something interesting also happens, as Rhythmbox jumps to the next title.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Think I've hit this as well, under similar circumstances. In my case I tracked it down to when rhythmbox has finished an OGG file and the next file in the queue is MP3. I can reliably reproduce it by advancing to the end of the OGG, letting it proceed on to the MP3, and it fails each time.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

(Or perhaps it's vice versa, MP3->OGG)

See also bug 921071 which could be related.

[Csipak Attila (corphicks)]

Yes it's MP3->OGG.

Based on the symptoms, it's seems that this is a duplicate of bug #921071.

[linux4me (ta2008)]

I'm playing a long playlist (>1000 songs), but all mine are flacs, and I'm still getting the occasional stopping playback.

[Daniel Himmelstein (dhimmel)]

I'm experiencing this bug. My library is made up of flac and mp3 files (no ogg). Playback will sometimes resume after several minutes but it will skip to various points of several songs until it settles and enters proper playback.