Comment 51 for bug 97720

There is an upstream bug for this:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396409

It looks as if the matter is fixed in Rhythmbox 0.12.2:

commit 11b1567a6462bfb333a227d8bb571f3777e0144f
Author: Jonathan Matthew <email address hidden>
Date: Sat May 23 21:33:34 2009 +1000

    player: rewrite non-crossfading backend using playbin2 (bug #542922)

    Amongst other things, playbin2 does chained oggs correctly (bug #396409)
    and doesn't require us to have a video sink running at all times in case
    the user enables visualization (bug #406807).