Rhythmbox fails to play songs the first time if they are not imported to library

[jimmy the saint]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Version 0.12.5-0ubuntu5.2

Karmic Koala 32bit

Essentially, rhythmbox requires the play command twice in order to play a song which is not in its music library. This breaks any compatibility with software that would use it as an audio player (gpodder, nautilus etc.)

To reproduce.

1) Find a music file on your machine which is NOT in the rhythmbox library.

2) Right-Click the file and select "open with rhythmbox"

3) If rhythmbox is already playing a file, notice that the file being played will pause, but the new file will not be loaded unless this step is repeated. If rhythmbox is not already playing a file, the file may or may not load, but will not play. If rhythmbox was not running at all, it will open, but not load or play the file.

My expectation: Rhythmbox should play any audio file the first time, regardless of whether or not it has been previously added to the library.

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592546

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

This was marked as "Fix Released" a while ago. Is the fix in Ubuntu yet?

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream report closed "RESOLVED FIXED" on 2011-01-28
Tested ok with rhythmbox 3.4.3 in Ubuntu 18.04
Closing as fixed