Rhythmbox (via gstreamer) stops playback when metadata changes arrives in the stream

[Henrik Hellerstedt]

Rhythmbox stops playback of the stream when the stream changes the metadata
(artist, tune etc).
I think the problem really lies in the gstreamer vorbis lib but i dont know any
other way to test it
than via rhythembox.

ogg123 is linked to same ogg and vorbis libs but copes with the metadata change

How to reproduce:
Add http://anka.org:8080/stream.ogg as a raidiostation, start to listen wait for
a tune to end,
when the next is about to start the metadata is sent and rhythmbox stops.

I can if needed put up a stream where metadata is sent more often....

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160330: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160330

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

which gtk+ and icon themes are you using ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

oops, comment on the wrong bug.

Are the metadata informations displayed in rhythmbox on your computer ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you now if the stream made of differents ogg played the ones after the others ?

[Henrik Hellerstedt (henrik8888)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> do you now if the stream made of differents ogg played the ones after the others ?

Its not made of different oggs, but chained streams, with a new stream each time
the metadta changes.

Running ogginfo on a wget'ed section of the stream confirms this "guess".

[Henrik Hellerstedt (henrik8888)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> oops, comment on the wrong bug.
>
> Are the metadata informations displayed in rhythmbox on your computer ?
>

No, no metadata is shown in rhythmbox.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

rhythmbox probably expects an unique and continuous stream for an iradio, the
bug is not due to
the metadata but the change of stream.

I've opened a bug upstream about this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160330

[Henrik Hellerstedt (henrik8888)]

This bug seems to be solved upstream by the gstreamer team and Debian.

For the lazy that doesnt want to read the appended urls:
This is fixed upstream in gstreamer HEAD_CVS and to get rhythmbox working it
needs to use playbin or implement "playbin" itself.

Alot of info at following urls:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155234
http://bugs.debian.org/273086

[Daniel Robitaille (robitaille)]

There is another upstream gnome bug report for this problems (still open):
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156941

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you still get the issue ?

[Henrik Hellerstedt (henrik8888)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> do you still get the issue ?

No sure about warty now, since i have moved to hoary... but the problem exists
there to
(rhythmbox 0.8.8)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's fixed with the current version, I'm closing the bug. Feel free to reopen
if that's still an issue for you.

[Christopher Denter (dennda)]

Hi.
This is gutsy with latest updates.
I like listening to streams all day. However, as soon as the metadata changes, rhythmbox throws an error-message and stops playback: "Couldn't start playback" is the title, "Internal data flow error.", is the content. Nothing more.
If I then reconnect to the stream, playback continues.

regards