i tried the same on a fresh new user and the problem didnt occur for the test user. so obviously something user profile/settings related
back under my normal user, I noted that in the list each song listed its "time" as unknown also. obviously rhythmbox needs this data to provide the progress/seek bar. so removed all music in the list, restarted rhythmbox and re-added through the normal import folder method and all the times came back and progress bar works fine.
ok upon further investigation.
i tried the same on a fresh new user and the problem didnt occur for the test user. so obviously something user profile/settings related
back under my normal user, I noted that in the list each song listed its "time" as unknown also. obviously rhythmbox needs this data to provide the progress/seek bar. so removed all music in the list, restarted rhythmbox and re-added through the normal import folder method and all the times came back and progress bar works fine.
well that solved my issue anyway.