Rhythmbox stops after every internet radio track on 'Absolute Classic Rock' (first in supplied list)

[Chris B]

Rhythmbox comes configured with a set up 'preloaded' Internet Radio stations.
Unfortunately playback stops after every track on the first of these 'Absolute Classic Rock'. Pause/Play restarts playback.

Stream url is http://network.absoluteradio.co.uk/core/audio/ogg/live.pls?service=vcbb

This may not be a Gstreamer issue as the station plays correctly with other Gstreamer-based players (e.g. Radiotray)

While this may be caused by a peculiarity of the stations' streaming software it would be an issue worth investigating as the first station in the configured list is likely to be the first one users try.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.36-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic-pae 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 4 18:03:24 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-22 (10 days ago)

[Egil Hansen (egil-rosetta)]

This also happens on 'Absolute Radio (Broadband)':

Rhythmbox stops after every track, and I have to press Pause/Play to restart playback.

Happens with Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 tested on Virtualbox (under W7) as wall as a native installation.

[Chris B (billington-chris)]

Attached is rhythmbox log for the duration of the track change.

What the user sees:

Track plays normally: 'Highway Star'
Track ends- there is a 1 second break in stream, then a new notification for the 'commercial break' 'soon - 3281' is shown, and the break starts to play.
After about 10 seconds, the commercial stops playing.
Stop/start is necessary to resume playback. However, the log continues as if the stream is actually playing, when it is not.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Gaizka (gaizkita)]

Check this bug too, seems to be the same "internet radio stream stops after every song Edit" Bug #974342.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/974342?comments=all