Rhythmbox does not play mp3 files stored on Samsung MTP device

Bug #483050 reported by John O'Dwyer
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Since upgrading to 9.10 Rhythmbox will not play mp3 files stored on my Samsung YP-P2 MTP device. It gives the following Playback error: No file name specified for reading. However Rhythmbox will play m3 files stored on the hard drive of my laptop. I never had this problem with 9.04

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darkprophet (ahmed-alhindawi) wrote :

Affecting me too on a Sony NWZ-S638F

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noureddine (noureddine-am) wrote :

Same problem with Sony NWZ-E436F : "No file name specified for reading"

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Torsten Krah (tkrah) wrote :

Same here with a SAMSUNG YP-U3: "No file name specified for reading"

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for the report, Could you please run rhythmbox as: rhythmbox --debug &> rhythmbox-debug.txt ; reproduce the issue and attach that resulting file to the report? Thanks in advance.

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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John O'Dwyer (johnrory-odwyer) wrote : Re: [Bug 483050] Re: Ubuntu 9.10 Rhythmbox will not play mp3 files stored on my Samsung MTP device

Please find attached file

On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 17:34 +0000, Pedro Villavicencio wrote:

> rhythmbox
> --debug &> rhythmbox-debug.txt

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John O'Dwyer (johnrory-odwyer) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 9.10 Rhythmbox will not play mp3 files stored on my Samsung MTP device

Any sign of this bug being fixed please?

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3DollarJeff (3dollarjeff) wrote :

Same problem with Sansa FUZE: "No file name specified for reading."

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Peter Tarasenko (pit.s) wrote :

Same problem with Creative ZEN Microphoto.

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Jelle (jellejelle) wrote :

Same problem with Creative ZEN Vision:M.

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John O'Dwyer (johnrory-odwyer) wrote :

Any update on this bug please?

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Nigel Babu (nigelbabu) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We have a new rhythmbox version in Lucid. If you could test this bug in the new version, this would help us a lot. If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs relevant for this particular issue so it can be reported to the developers of the software.

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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John O'Dwyer (johnrory-odwyer) wrote :

I have now upgraded to Lucid Beta 1 and am still having the same problem. Please find attached file

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John O'Dwyer (johnrory-odwyer) wrote :

Any update on this bug please. Is there any other testing I can do?

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John O'Dwyer (johnrory-odwyer) wrote :

I just started checking which gstreamer plugins I have installed. I have the following:

gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
gstreamer0.10-gnonlin
gstreamer0.10-nice
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-plugins-pulseaudio
gstreamer0.10-plugins-x

I just installed the following which fixed the problem for me:

gstreamer0.10-plugins-sdl

Now I just need to manage to get Rhythmbox to pull the album art from my Samsung YP-P2 and everything will be perfect.

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John O'Dwyer (johnrory-odwyer) wrote :

I have changed the status to invalid as this would now not seem to be a bug

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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John O'Dwyer (johnrory-odwyer) wrote :

I failed to note in my previous post that I had also played around with preferences in Rhythmbox in order to fix this problem. I have done some more testing and found that uninstalling gstreamer0.10-plugins-sdl and restarting does not reproduce the error.

I have found that the following steps fixes the error:

In Rhythmbox go to "Edit" and then "Preference"s. Choose the "Playback" tab. Under "Player Backend" tick the box for "Use crossfading backend (requires restart)". Then quit Rhythmbox. Launch Rhythmbox and you should then be able to play mp3 files stored on your mp3 device.

To reproduce the error:

If you untick the box for "Use crossfading backend" and quit and restart Rhythmbox then when you try to play an mp3 file from the mp3 player the file will not play and the error "No file name specified for reading" will be received.

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Torsten Krah (tkrah) wrote :

I can confirm Johns observation - checking crossfading does make play work, but not for long time.

Suddenly the player does not know my samsung device anymore:

[ 3553.052194] __ratelimit: 21 callbacks suppressed
[ 3553.052206] hub 1-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 2 disabled
[ 3554.980091] hub 1-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 2 disabled
[ 3556.901505] hub 1-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 2 disabled

After reconnection the device and trying to play again rhytmbox segfaults:

[ 3667.144316] rhythmbox[3677]: segfault at 74654d3b ip 01234f6b sp bffb7acc error 4 in libc-2.10.1.so[11c2000+13e000]

So this is still a bug.

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Incomplete
summary: - Ubuntu 9.10 Rhythmbox will not play mp3 files stored on my Samsung MTP
- device
+ Ubuntu 9.10 & 10.04 Rhythmbox will not play mp3 files stored on my
+ Samsung MTP device
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andreas (andreas-demey) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 9.10 & 10.04 Rhythmbox will not play mp3 files stored on my Samsung MTP device

I can confirm Torsten's observation. John's suggestion (#16) works, but player is'nt recognized anymore after reconnecting.

ubuntu 10.04 64bit rc
player: sony walkman NWZ-E436F

Another thing is cover art is not transferred to the device..

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Tom Muse (tom-muse) wrote :

I was having the same problem with a Zen Mozaic and I simply checked the Use Crossfading option under Edit>Preferences>Playback then restarted Rythembox and it worked fine. Not sure if this is a permanent fix or not but I have listened to 3 songs from beginning to end with no issues. Another note, I didn't change any of the slider bar options. Mine is currently set to>>
Crossfade Duration (Seconds) : 0.0
Network Buffer Size (kB) : 32

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Torsten Krah (tkrah) wrote :

Tried again with Lucid today:

- crossfading disabled - it still does crash:

[43502.235914] rhythmbox[7388]: segfault at 18 ip 077679c9 sp bf904860 error 4 in libmtpdevice.so[775c000+10000]

- crossfading plugin enabled (0.0 seconds, 32kb size):

seems to work - did not crash yet but did only test some titles.
But using crossfading does not seem to me as a bugfix, it does crash without - so there must be a bug somewhere.

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Patrick Gillespie (vtpoet) wrote :

Just bought a Sansa Fuze and tried it out with Rhythmbox. Received the following warning:

"No file name specified for reading."

(Which is how I found this bug listing.)

1.) Downloaded Podcasts.
2.) Dragged Podcasts onto Sansa Fuze Icon.
3.) Rhythmbox showed status bar (transferring files).
4.) Disconnected SF.
5.) No playback. Files appeared in SF Music Folder. However, when trying to play them, the total time of all the podcasts was listed as 00:00. The SF window showed the file as it were being played, but the play bar never progressed and, as noted, the total time was listed as 00:00 and start time 00:00.
6.) Reconnected.
7.) Tried playing the file *on* the SF through Rhythmbox. This resulted in the "No file name specified for reading" message. If I then tried to delete the file, Rhythmbox would crash. Repeating 7.) after disconnect and reconnect resulted in Rhythmbox cashing and the SF "locking up". I had to "reset" the SF.
8.) If I didn't try to play the files on the SF, Rythmbox was able to successfully delete the files.
9.) Checking crossfading is an inconsistent solution. It worked at first, then failed to work after restart.

I have switched to MSC USB mode (which works fine for my needs), bypassing Rythmbox. However, would still prefer using Rythmbox at some point.

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John O'Dwyer (johnrory-odwyer) wrote :

I have upgraded to Maverick 10.10 and I am back to square one on this. Checking crossfading no longer works for me.

summary: - Ubuntu 9.10 & 10.04 Rhythmbox will not play mp3 files stored on my
+ Ubuntu 9.10,10.04 & 10.10 Rhythmbox will not play mp3 files stored on my
Samsung MTP device
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 9.10,10.04 & 10.10 Rhythmbox will not play mp3 files stored on my Samsung MTP device

John, please attach the latest logs from Maverick so that I could send this bug upstream to the developers of rhythmbox.

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → nobody
summary: - Ubuntu 9.10,10.04 & 10.10 Rhythmbox will not play mp3 files stored on my
- Samsung MTP device
+ Rhythmbox does not play mp3 files stored on Samsung MTP device
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John O'Dwyer (johnrory-odwyer) wrote :

I have reported this bug now on bugzilla also

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631191

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John O'Dwyer (johnrory-odwyer) wrote :

Logs now attached Omer thank you

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

thanks for sending this bug upstream.

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :
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John O'Dwyer (johnrory-odwyer) wrote :

Thanks Omer! Any idea when this fix will drop into Ubuntu as an update for Rhythmbox as I am anxious to test it?

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

John, I have build rhythmbox with the above branch in my ppa https://launchpad.net/~om26er/+archive/test/ please check if that version solves the problem for you.

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John O'Dwyer (johnrory-odwyer) wrote :

Updated Rhythmbox from ppa. Bug fixed! Fantastic! \o/ Thanks for your contribution Omer.

Changed in rhythmbox:
importance: Unknown → High
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Sean Sturgess (sean-sturgess) wrote :

Hi Omer, had the same problem with 10.10 and fixed from your PPA - many thanks.

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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

Upstream bug was closed "RESOLVED FIXED" on 2010-10-03
Comments #30 and #31 confirm fixed as per comment #29
So fixed in Ubuntu for some time

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