Rhythmbox 0.12.5 cannot start playback of Last.fm after pausing

[Alan Musnikow]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Rhythmbox 0.12.5 in Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala, on a Dell Inspiron 1545n displays an error message such as the following every time it tries to restart playback of Last.fm after stopping playback of Last.fm.
'Couldn't start playback
"http://play.last.fm/user/7add...de632.mp3": Forbidden'.

I expected it to restart playback of Last.fm rather than display the error message above.

The source package is "rhythmbox". The installed version is "0.12.5-0ubuntu5".

I work around this problem by quiting the "Music Player" icon at the top of the screen and restarting "Rhythmbox". Only closing the "Music Player" window and restarting "Rhythmbox" is not sufficient, since clicking on the "Play" icon for Last.fm gets the error message above.

The first time Rhythmbox tries to restart playback of Last.fm after stopping playback of Last.fm, it also displays the following error message.
"Search for suitable plugin?
The required software to play this file is not installed. You need to install suitable plugins to play media files. Do you want to search for a plugin that supports the selected file?
The search will also include software which is not officially supported."

Running the search results in the following window.
"No packages with the requested plugins found.
The requested plugins are:
text/html decoder".

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, could you run rhythmbox as: rhythmbox -D lastfm &> rhythmbox-debug.txt ; perform the issue to reproduce the bug and attach that resulting file to the report?

[Alan Musnikow (am)]

Pedro,

I entered rhythmbox -D lastfm &> rhythmbox-debug.txt in Terminal and performed the actions to reproduce the bug in the Music Player window. Since I could not find a file named rhythmbox-debug.txt, I copied and pasted the contents of the Terminal window to a file with that name and attached it to this comment.

Please let me if I can do something to provide better information.

Thanks,
Alan

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Since the requested information has been added, I'm changing the status to "New"

[Alan Musnikow (am)]

The messages below in this comment say that another Rhythmbox bug was fixed upstream in the package rhythmbox - 0.12.6-0ubuntu1. This new Rhythmbox package is not yet included in Ubuntu.

from Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>
reply-to Bug 445047 <email address hidden>
date Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:09 AM
subject [Bug 445047] Re: rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_get()
mailed-by canonical.com

this [Bug 445047] has been fixed upstream now....

from Launchpad Bug Tracker <email address hidden>
reply-to Bug 445047 <email address hidden>
date Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:20 AM
subject [Bug 445047] Re: rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_get()
mailed-by canonical.com

This bug [445047] was fixed in the package rhythmbox - 0.12.6-0ubuntu1

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Hi Alan, the rhythmbox - 0.12.6-0ubuntu1 is in Lucid, so this bug seems to be fixed it Lucid.

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Changing to fix released since its fixed in Lucid

[Matt (mattredmond1)]

Hi, I can confirm this still occurs on 0.12.6 on Lucid.

Let me know if I can be of any use!

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Thank you for your bug report. This was incorrectly changed to Fix Released. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609610

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Changing to original bug on upstream tracker.

[filippe robotis (cbafiris)]

I will take off the Ubuntu koala from my PC .Chris. <email address hidden>

[Alan Musnikow (am)]

I do not think this is a exact duplicate of bug #441444
I only have the problem when trying to Play Last.fm after stopping playing Last.fm. I never have the problem when first opening Rhythmbox and first trying to Play Last.fm.
Also, I still have the problem after upgrading to Rhythmbox 0.12.8 on the latest release of Ubuntu 10.4, Lucid Lynx, Beta 2.

[Ben Selinger (blistovmhz)]

Confirmed in Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop (amd64).
Steps to reproduce:
1. Start Rhythmbox
2. Click on Last.FM
3. Enter Last.FM account details and sign in.
4. Play any station.
5. Stop playback.
6. Start playback on the same channel (without switching channels).

Attached output of command `rhythmbox -D lastfm &> rhythmbox-debug.txt`

[Ben Selinger (blistovmhz)]

I can also confirm this affects all new installations of Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 (amd64 and x86). I have tested on 7 physical machines, both after a vanilla install as well as after updating all packages.

[Alan Musnikow (am)]

Based on point 6 in Ben Selinger's first comment on 2010-05-25, I found an alternative work around to quitting and restarting Rhythmbox.

After stopping playback of a Last.fm station, select a different Last.fm station by double-clicking on it. After a new playlist is displayed in the lower portion of the window, click on Play and the new Last.fm station will start playing.

If you want to continue playing a Last.fm station after stopping playback, select a different Last.fm station by double-clicking on it. After a new playlist is displayed in the lower portion of the window, select the original Last.fm station by double-clicking on it. After a new playlist is displayed in the lower portion of the window, click on Play and the original Last.fm station will start playing, although with a new play list.