program does not offer optical media error correction or skip when media is scratched

[komputes]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

This bug affects multiple applications which read from optical media. Program does not offer optical media error correction or skip when media is scratched. The program fails silently.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: rhythmbox (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 12 15:56:51 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110109)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox

[komputes (komputes)]

rhythmbox fails silently when faced with the task of ripping a scratched CD. It does nothing but sits there constantly trying to read a scratched second from the CD. Most CD players would simply insert a second of silence or cut out that part. Warning the user that this was done would be helpful. In the screenshots below you will see that 1h and 10m have passed and rhythmbox is still trying to rip the same second on the same file.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

rhythmbox does not list libdvdread as a dependency. If you can reproduce the bug using a libdvdread-using utility, file a bug against libdvdread with steps to reproduce (I've not seen this particular error myself and use libdvdread pretty heavily with a lot of scratched disks.)