Banshee on ubuntu 11.04 won't play until you've deleted config and re-imported music collection, then it lags horribly between songs, reporting that it is "buffering".. and you miss the first bit of the song

[Sod Oscar]

Binary package hint: banshee

I used Rhythmbox up until upgrading to 11.04.

Banshee is a nicer interface IMHO so I'm determined to get this sorted.

Upon importing my music collection, which is stored on my media server, I was able to play my music but there was a terrible lag when going from one song to the next and I miss the first bit of every next song.

Restarting the computer and loading up Banshee once again, this time from terminal, nothing will play and I am confronted with "Gstreamer Resource Error: OpenRead" ... I've also got "Gstreamer Resource Error: OpenWrite" errors on subsequent tries.

This error message prints 4 times every time I click a new song to play. I thought it may have been a permissions thing, but after changing all the permissions I find out it's still occurring.

The only way I've managed to get around it is by deleting the Banshee.DB config and re-importing my media.. which takes forever! There needs to be an update to resolve this as I've heard a few people are having the same issue.

But thats just one part of the problem.. the lagging between songs is very frustrating... next time I reboot I will run a --debug and post the output for you..

Strangely running the command:

lsb_release -rd

reports I'm using 9.10 yet i've upgraded from 10.04 to 11.04

running the command:

apt-cache policy banshee

reports ...
apt-cache policy banshee
banshee:

  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.5.1-1
  Version table:
     1.5.1-1 0
        500 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages

...Again with the karmic release... is this where the problem lies perhaps?

[Sod Oscar (sodoscar)]

sorry my mistake.. I was foolishly logged into my other machine there when I ran those commands.. here they are from the proper machine:

*****@*****:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
*****@*****:~$ apt-cache policy banshee
banshee:
  Installed: 2.0.0-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.0.0-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
*****@*****:~$ banshee --debug
** Running Mono with --debug **
[1 Info 23:16:55.542] Running Banshee 2.0.0: [Ubuntu Natty (development branch) (linux-gnu, i686) @ 2011-04-18 16:21:33 UTC]
[1 Debug 23:16:55.585] Initializing GTK
[1 Debug 23:16:58.249] Post-Initializing GTK
[1 Debug 23:16:58.272] Configuration client extension loaded (Banshee.GnomeBackend.GConfConfigurationClient)
[1 Debug 23:16:58.313] Using default gconf-base-key
[1 Debug 23:16:58.400] Bus.Session.RequestName ('org.bansheeproject.Banshee') replied with PrimaryOwner
[1 Debug 23:16:58.565] Core service started (DBusServiceManager, 0.002153)
[1 Debug 23:16:58.570] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/DBusCommandService (Banshee.ServiceStack.DBusCommandService) on org.bansheeproject.Banshee
[1 Debug 23:16:58.593] Core service started (DBusCommandService, 0.026605)
[1 Debug 23:16:58.683] Opened SQLite (version 3.7.4) connection to /home/sod/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db
[1 Debug 23:16:58.684] Core service started (DbConnection, 0.090593)
[1 Debug 23:16:58.700] Database version 43 is up to date
[1 Debug 23:16:58.792] Core service started (PreferenceService, 0.032086)
[1 Debug 23:16:58.814] Core service started (Network, 0.022428)
[1 Debug 23:16:58.816] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/SourceManager (Banshee.Sources.SourceManager) on org.bansheeproject.Banshee
[1 Debug 23:16:58.816] Core service started (SourceManager, 0.001919)
[1 Debug 23:16:58.844] Core service started (MediaProfileManager, 0.000488)
[1 Debug 23:16:58.850] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/PlayerEngine (Banshee.MediaEngine.PlayerEngineService) on org.bansheeproject.Banshee
[1 Debug 23:16:58.853] Core service started (PlayerEngine, 0.00888)
[1 Debug 23:16:58.888] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/PlaybackController (Banshee.PlaybackController.PlaybackControllerService) on org.bansheeproject.Banshee
[1 Debug 23:16:58.891] Core service started (PlaybackController, 0.007934)
[1 Debug 23:16:58.918] Starting - Startup Job
[1 Debug 23:16:58.921] Core service started (JobScheduler, 0.030149)
[1 Debug 23:16:58.959] IO provider extension loaded (Banshee.IO.Gio.Provider)
[1 Debug 23:16:59.067] Loaded HardwareManager backend: Banshee.Hardware.Gio
[1 Debug 23:16:59.072] Core service started (HardwareManager, 0.150555)
[1 Debug 23:16:59.078] Bus.Session.RequestName ('org.bansheeproject.CollectionIndexer') replied with PrimaryOwner
[1 Debug 23:16:59.081] Registering remote object /org/bansheeproject/Banshee/CollectionIndexerService (Banshee.Collection.Indexer.CollectionIndexerService) on org.bansheeproject.CollectionIndexer
[1 Debug 23:16:59.085] Core service started (CollectionIndexerService, 0.0...