Seeking using the mouse wheel or right cursor causes song to restart sometimes

[Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

When moving the "seek" bar in Rhythmbox to go forward in the song using the right cursor keys or the mouse wheel, sometimes the slider is positioned at the beginning of the bar.

This is very easy to reproduce for me, no matter what file format I'm playing or what backend I'm using (I've tested with Pulseaudio and ALSA): play a few seconds of the song, and then press *and hold* the right cursor key. After a few forward "skips", the slider will return to the beginning of the bar, will advance a little and will return again. I can do this forever withouth the slider ever getting to the end of the bar.

With the mouse, after a few rotations of the mouse wheel the slider goes back to the beginning.

If I allow a few seconds between cursor key presses or mouse wheel rotations, everything works fine.

To resume, "What I expected to happen":

I expect that the slider goes to the right if I press the right cursor or move the mouse wheel.

"What happened instead":

The slider went back to the beginning (left) of the seek bar.

I'm using Ubuntu Hardy with Rhythmbox 0.11.5

Raúl

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Intrepid Ibex. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado (dervishd)]

Hi Pedro. I downloaded the latest Intrepid Ibex ISO I found (alpha 6), i386-desktop version, and tested the problem with the following steps:

- Booted the Live CD, only changing the keyboard layout to "Spanish" in the boot menu.

- Once the system was up'n'running I launched Rhythmbox and mounted by hand the hard disk partition where my music files are. I imported a whole folder into Rhythmbox using Music->Import Folder. Then I reproduced the first file in the list. I can make available the file for you, but it may cause copyright problems. I own the original CD but I cannot legally distribute the ripped track. Anyway, feel free to contact me if you need the file, we thought a way of solving the copyright problem.

- When the song was playing I put the mouse cursor over the slider used to seek in the song and turned the mouse wheel down a few times. After the third or four mouse stroke, the slider went back to the beginning of the song.

- I tested with keys, too: I pressed and maintained pressed the right cursor. The song advanced fast for a little while and after that the slider goes back to the beginning, again to the right for some time, again to the beginning, etc. ad infinitum.

So the bug is reproducible and easy to reproduce too in Intrepid Ibex running on my machine. If you want me to, I can test in different machines, but it will take a bit of time (I don't have access to any other computer running Ubuntu right now). Moreover, if you want me to check anything with the Live CD I'll do, too. It will take some time because I can't boot my machine as frequently as I should to check the Live CD. I'll try my best, anyway.

Thanks for your interest in my bug report, and feel free to contact me if you need more information.

Raúl

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

I can confirm this bug. Up-to-date Intrepid oct 6th.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

could you send this upstream to bugzilla.gnome.org since you're facing the issue? thanks.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

I can't seem to reproduce this anymore, DervishD do you still have the issue?

[Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado (dervishd)]

Bryan, I haven't tested with non-beta Intrepid, and I'm afraid I won't be able to do so at least in one or two weeks, so I think it's better to send the bug upstream, as suggested by Pedro. It's a good excuse to create a GNOME Bugzilla account, I suppose...

If I can't reproduce the bug when I test official Intrepid, I'll mark the bug as fixed, here and in GNOME Bugzilla:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560813

Raúl

[David Gómez (dabisu)]

Intrepid Ibex here, and i can reproduce this bug easily. No matter if i use the
cursor keys or the mouse wheel, the slider goes back to the beggining (and
the music stops, i need to play the song again)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you use the crossfading option?

[Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado (dervishd)]

Nope. I've been able to reproduce the bug in a live version of Intrepid (default config for Rhythmbox) and in at least two Ubuntu Hardy with default parameters for Rhythmbox, too. And with different files (mostly FLAC, but a couple of Ogg and MP3, too).

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

The upstream report has moved to:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/rhythmbox/issues/660
but has seen no activity

If this is still an issue using a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Bug report won't expire due to bug watch
Last report of issue was in comment #9 over 11 years ago
No reply to comment #10 asking if issue still exists
Unable to reproduce with version 3.4.4 so closing as fixed