After update to 13.04 Brasero CD write hangs at "normalizing tracks"

[Kibi Hofmann]

I was previously able to burn a music CD, now that I have upgraded to 13.04 I cannot. I select tracks (they happen to be in OGG format) then press the button to burn. The dialog shows "Normalizing tracks" (which is the first visible step) then nothing happens. Retried but it didn't help.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: brasero 3.6.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 0c0b506ac08511df3587026b79856af7
CheckboxSystem: b1865df84255b8716d3bcc269ff410d1
Date: Sun May 5 12:03:37 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/brasero
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-01 (398 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: brasero
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-29 (6 days ago)

[Kibi Hofmann (kibi-hofmann)]

Also occurred when I used the Burn Audio CD plugin from Rythmbox (which invokes Brasero)

[Kibi Hofmann (kibi-hofmann)]

So it turns out that the "normalizing" thing is a plugin for Brasero
When I disable that plugin, the burning continues, so I guess this should be marked as a bug in the normalizing plugin

[Joelburge (joelburge)]

Kibi-hofmann has it right. Same issue, solved the same way.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Alexandra Omar Aziz (a99675)]

I can confirm both the bug and the workaround.

[MathUHenry (mathuhenry)]

Thank you Kibi; that worked.

[Kibi Hofmann (kibi-hofmann)]

By the way, I'm not saying the Duplicate status is wrong, but that other bug is over 4 years old, and was previously marked 'solved' and although a few people have noticed it has come back in Raring, nobody seems to be doing a thing to fix it. Is there any possibility of a fix in sight?

[Pedro Coca (pcoca)]

I also confirm the same bug for Brasero 3.6.1 in Ubuntu 13.04. Thanks for the workaround.

[Ray DeCampo (rdecampo)]

This shouldn't be a duplicate. I remember hitting the old issue and it being fixed. This is a new issue with the same symptoms.

[Krzysztof Kosinski (tweenk)]

This bug seems to be a distinct issue. Here is the debug output from Brasero which was attached as a comment to bug #374101:

Checking session consistency (brasero_burn_check_session_consistency brasero-burn.c:1739)
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_tracks
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_action
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_session_output_size
BraseroNormalize Output set (AUDIO) image = /tmp/brasero_tmp_26L30W.cdr
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_session_output_size
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_tracks
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_tag_lookup
BraseroNormalize Analysing track file:///home/bart/path/to/first_track.mp3
BraseroNormalize Creating new pipeline
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_set_current_action
BraseroNormalize New decoded pad linked
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_tracks
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_tracks
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_tracks
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_tracks
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_tracks
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_tracks
BraseroNormalize Setting track peak (1.000000) and gain (-8.840000)
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_tag_lookup
BraseroNormalize Analysing track file:///home/bart/path/to/second_track.mp3
BraseroNormalize Creating new pipeline
BraseroNormalize New decoded pad linked
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_tracks
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_tracks
BraseroNormalize called brasero_job_get_tracks
[... repeated ad infinitum ...]

[Krzysztof Kosinski (tweenk)]

Please do not mark this as a duplicate of bug #374101. The symptoms are the same, but the underlying cause is different.

[David Shochat (david-shochat)]

I am seeing the same problem in 13.10 on 2 different systems, one 32-bit and one 64-bit.

[Vincent Gerris (vgerris)]

same issue on 13.10 64 bit: haning on normalising, works when disabling it.

[Javier (jgarciaalo)]

Same here with Ubuntu 13.10 64 bits. Fixed changing to K3b :-S

[Daniel Schürmann (daschuer)]

Workaround:
Install the last working Brasero 3.4.1 from quantal-updates repository

Download:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/de/quantal-updates/brasero-common
http://packages.ubuntu.com/de/quantal-updates/libbrasero-media3-1
http://packages.ubuntu.com/de/quantal-updates/brasero
http://packages.ubuntu.com/de/quantal-updates/brasero-cdrkit

Remove:
sudo apt-get remove brasero-cdrkit brasero libbrasero-media3-1 brasero-common

Install:
Just double click the downloaded files in the order like above.

Make version sticky
sudo apt-mark hold brasero-cdrkit brasero libbrasero-media3-1 brasero-common