Ubuntu
pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #978604
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 978604

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Derek Monner (dmonner) wrote : Re: Banshee/Rhythmbox regularly stop playing audio when left on in the background

There seem to possibly be several different issues going on here, but I'll tell you how I worked around one of them. My symptoms were: Banshee is playing music, monitor goes off due to machine idle, Banshee continues playing until end of track and then stops. When I move the mouse to get the monitor back on, Banshee starts playing where it left off (i.e. it begins the next track).

I worked around this issue by disabling Banshee's "Notification Area Icon" extension. This means I no longer get notification popups when the track changes, but it allows Banshee to keep playing in the background after the computer goes idle and the monitor goes off. Is it possible that Banshee is blocked from starting playback, waiting to post a notification that can't be posted when the computer is idle?

By the way, I'm using Banshee 2.4.0 under the Cinnamon desktop on Linux Mint Maya (based off of Ubuntu 12.04).