gmusicbrowser sound randomly output stops

Bug #993215 reported by Guillaume Gay
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gmusicbrowser (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

At seemingly random moments the sound from gmusicbrowser is mutated, though the tracks continues apparently to be read.
Sound might be revivied for a short while (less than a second) by going to the next song are pausing and playing again.

This is with Xubuntu 12.04, gmusicbrowser 1.1.9-1 i386

Guillaume Gay (gay)
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Guillaume Gay (gay) wrote :

Switching from gstreamer to mplayer in th e 'Audio' tab of the configuration panel solves the bug

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Quentin Sculo (squentin) wrote :

I don't know why it would do that, gmusicbrowser mostly let gstreamer/mplayer handle the playing.
Is it really random or maybe related to some other application playing a sound ?
You could check if the gmusicbrowser volume changes in the pulseaudio dialog.
You could also try a different output for gstreamer.

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Vincent Tschanz (fogia) wrote :

I have the same problem with Rhythmbox, Banshee and Totem. All three are using gstreamer and the bug is the same, I listen to my playlist (mp3, aac, ogg) and suddunly the sound disapear, the player seem to continue the reading, sometimes the sound come back.
I tried to launch Banshee from the commande line to see if something prints out when the problem happen, but nothing. With Rhythmbox I get loads of warnings and errors, but none of them seems related to the problem.

How to get gatreamer output/logs to investigate further?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gmusicbrowser (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Quentin Sculo (squentin) wrote :

> How to get gstreamer output/logs to investigate further?
You can use a command line option like : -gst-debug-level=2
full documentation on gstreamer debugging options :
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/manual/html/section-checklist-debug.html
Be warned that it can output an awful lot of data, it should work with all gstreamer-based players.
But I'm not sure it comes from gstreamer, it could come from pulseaudio or something.

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Guillaume Gay (gay) wrote :

Hello,

I can't tell wether it comes from gstreamer or pulseAudio for sure, but I really suspect gstreamer: I tried changing PulseAudio profiles and so on without any effect, and the rest of the sound producing applications works fine (as does gmusicbrowser because you can -very nicely I must say- change the backen player). So I think gstreamer is to blame...

Best,
Guillaume

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Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding) wrote :

Xubuntu 12.04 LTS has reached EOL long ago.

Changed in gmusicbrowser (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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