playback halts, refuses to play subsequent tracks

[teledyn]

The player is going along fine, stepping through the play list, and then the playback on a subsequent track does not begin, the toolbar icon is still in play-mode, but the progress needle does not move and the track does not play; other apps are able to play sound (using aoss for example); even if I select other tracks that have recently been played (to show that it is not the fault of the mp3 itself) the player will not play them. The only solution is to exit the program and start it up again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: rhythmbox 2.90.1~20110908-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 25 10:09:10 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (102 days ago)

[teledyn (garym-teledyn)]

this may be some sort of sound conflict with xchat notifications (using
aoss) as I noticed in lsof | grep snd that xchat was using the sound system
and once it was removed and rhythmbox restarted, the sound returned. So
it's some sort of blocking that's going on between the two.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:14 AM, teledyn <email address hidden> wrote:

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> https://bugs.launchpicad.net/bugs/921610<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/921610>
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> Title:
> playback halts, refuses to play subsequent tracks
>
> Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> The player is going along fine, stepping through the play list, and
> then the playback on a subsequent track does not begin, the toolbar
> icon is still in play-mode, but the progress needle does not move and
> the track does not play; other apps are able to play sound (using aoss
> for example); even if I select other tracks that have recently been
> played (to show that it is not the fault of the mp3 itself) the player
> will not play them. The only solution is to exit the program and
> start it up again.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
> Package: rhythmbox 2.90.1~20110908-0ubuntu1.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
> Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl
> ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Jan 25 10:09:10 2012
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: rhythmbox
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (102 days ago)
>
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[Mark Harrison (mark-z-harrison)]

I had the same problem until I turned off crossfading (Edit -> Preferences, Playback tab, uncheck "Crossfade between tracks"). Crossfading never worked with MP3s, so no big loss.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for rhythmbox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]