sound track progress bar disabled when using banshee with a bluetooth headset

[Anish]

Binary package hint: banshee

Distribution #1
==========
OS Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04 - beta2 - amd64
System Architecture: amd64

Distribution #2
==========
OS Description: Ubuntu karmic (stable branch)
Release: 9.10 - amd64
System Architecture: amd64

Package
======
banshee:
  Installed: 1.6.0-1
  Candidate: 1.6.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.6.0-1 0
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Bug Description
===========
When trying to play mp3 soundtracks in banshee music player with a bluetooth headset as the audio playback device, the soundtrack progress bar does not progress from left to right but remains stationary at the leftmost end. Dragging the progress bar left/right also doesn't work. However, the number of minutes and seconds the current soundtrack has been playing for is correctly shown beside it in plain text.

The command I use to select my bluetooth device as the audio device is

user@host:~$gconftool -t string -s /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/musicaudiosink "sbcenc ! a2dpsink device=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx"

[Anish (anishmangal2002)]

Screenshot highlighting th bug:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/U2TBJyyHBI74nXhijHGiPw?feat=directlink

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Saturday 17,April,2010 01:03 AM, Anish wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: banshee
>
> Distribution #1
> ==========
> OS Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
> Release: 10.04 - beta2 - amd64
> System Architecture: amd64
>
> Distribution #2
> ==========
> OS Description: Ubuntu karmic (stable branch)
> Release: 9.10 - amd64
> System Architecture: amd64
>
> Package
> ======
> banshee:
> Installed: 1.6.0-1
> Candidate: 1.6.0-1
> Version table:
> *** 1.6.0-1 0
> 500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> Bug Description
> ===========
> When trying to play mp3 soundtracks in banshee music player with a bluetooth headset as the audio playback device, the soundtrack progress bar does not progress from left to right but remains stationary at the leftmost end. However, the number of minutes and seconds the current soundtrack has been playing for is correctly shown beside it in plain text.
>
> The command I use to select my bluetooth device as the audio device is
>
> user@host:~$gconftool -t string -s
> /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/musicaudiosink "sbcenc ! a2dpsink
> device=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx"

This actually sounds like a Gstreamer issue. I'm marking this low priority,
because you are meant to use pulsesink and then use the sound preferences or
something to do with PulseAudio to shift Banshee dynamically to the bluetooth
headset. Why don't you try that instead?

  importance low

--
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Developer

[Anish (anishmangal2002)]

Hi Chow Loong Jin,

Please see the responses inlined:

"""
you are meant to use pulsesink and then use the sound preferences or
something to do with PulseAudio to shift Banshee dynamically to the bluetooth
headset. Why don't you try that instead?
"""
That is what I try to do initially but it has never worked for me till date and I have to use the aforementioned command.
The Bluetooth headset in question is a Dell BH200 which has never worked out of the box(i.e. with a GUI) with Ubuntu.

"""
This actually sounds like a Gstreamer issue.
"'"
Do you mean this bug should be reported elsewhere/reassigned?

Cheers,
Anish Mangal
GPG:0xC70D9569

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Saturday 17,April,2010 03:27 PM, Anish wrote:
> Hi Chow Loong Jin,
>
> Please see the responses inlined:
>
> """
> you are meant to use pulsesink and then use the sound preferences or
> something to do with PulseAudio to shift Banshee dynamically to the bluetooth
> headset. Why don't you try that instead?
> """
> That is what I try to do initially but it has never worked for me till date and I have to use the aforementioned command.
> The Bluetooth headset in question is a Dell BH200 which has never worked out of the box(i.e. with a GUI) with Ubuntu.

Then you should report that bug against pulseaudio.

> """
> This actually sounds like a Gstreamer issue.
> "'"
> Do you mean this bug should be reported elsewhere/reassigned?

Well, that is if it is a Gstreamer issue. Do you notice this issue with Totem or
Rhythmbox? What about earlier versions of Banshee?

--
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Developer

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

As per the comments above, I'm reassiging the package to pulseaudio.
Also, it seems that this bug is rather old. Can you retry with Lucid stable or preferably with Maverick? If the bug is still there, can you run "apport-collect 564841" in a terminal without quotes (preferably with the bluetooth headset activated)?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]