Rhythmbox Volume Control is laggy

Bug #160565 reported by Andreas Schildbach
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Rhythmbox
Fix Released
Low
rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Sebastian Bacher asked me to open a new bug report in bug 40813:

On Ubuntu Gutsy, when I move the volume control slider in Rhythmbox it takes about a second for the volume to change.

Here are the "soundcards" of two diffent machines with the same problem:

00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)

00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

It is just a guess that the volume control might by applied at "buffer push" time, instead of "buffer pull" - which would explain the lag of approx. buffer size.

Gnome main volume control works as expected.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for your report, are you using the crossfading backend? Does it happen without it?

Changed in rhythmbox:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Andreas Schildbach (schildbach) wrote :

No, the checkbox for crossfading is unchecked.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

to be send upstream by someone getting the bug, thanks.

Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Incomplete → New
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Is the one second delay really an issue? Do you get the issue using other applications?

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Topher (hunt-topher) wrote :

As Sebastien said - to be honest, I thought this was a feature like Amarok's default fade-in for music. I can see why this might bother someone who massively multitasks but I don't see it as high priority for standard desktop users.

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Andreas Schildbach (schildbach) wrote :

This issue is still present on current Hardy. It really feels weird, very unresponsive. Also, it's more like a two second delay rather than just one second.

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Francisco Isgleas (isgleas) wrote :

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

Working with Hardy, delay takes up to 5 seconds. Don't know if it is an issue for you, but if you expect to work with (at least) 2 apps (let's say, VoIP phone and listening to music) you may need been able to modify rhythmbox's volume level asap.

I think is more related to usability. When you get used to rhythmbox (and other media players) it is really comfortable to up/down volume within the taskbar/applet and the mouse wheel, but such delay makes you to stop the player.

Volume control on totem-gstreamer, and gnome's main volume control work as expeted

Changed in rhythmbox:
status: New → Confirmed
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Any chance to send this upstream by someone that can reproduce the bug with latest package on Hardy? For forwarding instructions please take a look to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; setting this as incomplete until someone send it upstream, thanks.

Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Francisco Isgleas (isgleas) wrote :
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Incomplete → In Progress
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for sent it upstream, adding the link to it.

Changed in rhythmbox:
status: In Progress → Triaged
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Unknown → New
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Topher (hunt-topher) wrote :

I just switched to Intrepid beta and this seems fixed! :-) From what I'm hearing in related bug discussions, it was the newer kernel that did it.

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Craig73 (funrun73) wrote :

It still lags on Intrepid for me.

@Topher: <QUOTE> ...but I don't see it as high priority for standard desktop users. </QUOTE>

I disagree... this makes for a very bad experience for desktop users. You pull it down, it doesn't respond so you pull down further and it goes quiet so you drag it up, with no response so you drag it further, it catches up and blasts your speakers. There are many situations where you might want to adjust the volume (rather than mute) like when you want to be heard over your music but still want to hear it (a conversation, at a party, demoing some music, etc.)

This bug makes the software feel second rate and unpolished. Perhaps we can increase the priority from low to high and polish things up a bit...

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Orlouge (rd-orlouge) wrote :

First of all hello world.

I just moved from windows to linux, to be more accurate Debian Lenny. As a totally new user to linux, when I saw the raw desktop Debian had, the big icons of the GUI (gnome) and sort of things I felt I made a mistake right away. The first thing I did was get the packages I needed to use the iceweasel and youtube, so I could at least listen music. After I got more confident with Debian, I started downloading music and when I played it, the default player was the rythmbox. At first, the ipodish look and ways made me fell in love, but after some experience with it, I must say I ended up disapointed. I haven't lost hope on linux cause it seems communities work fast on solving problems.

My point of view on this subject (the volume control lag), as a noob computer user, is the same as Craig. Well, to be honest I felt that it was even poorly developed. Also as a noob, forgive me for including in this post other issues that I consider any desktop user might find quite poorly designed: playlist window not merging with the player window, the lack of a repeat track option, the almost inexistent preferences (poor variety of options), no equalizer!!!, and I don't know if it is because I'm noob or if its the cap of the rythmbox, but the max volume seems a joke to me (probably I'm the noob in this one that needs to learn how to config a computer).

Well, that's all I can say. BTW the last post I see is dated 02-24-09 and maybe all things I cry about were resolved and I'm the one running and older version. The version I have is the 0.11.6. May someone confirm if it is the last version available?

Ty and sorry is I said something noobish

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for your contribution, the recent comment doesn't really have to do with this bug though

Changed in rhythmbox:
importance: Unknown → Low
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: New → Fix Released
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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

Upstream bug report was closed "RESOLVED FIXED" on 2011-07-25
Fix will have been in Ubuntu for some time so closing as fixed.

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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