Seeking disabled when starting podcast after downloading it

[Captain Chaos]

1. Subscribe to a podcast
2. Doubleclick on an old episode to download it
3. After it has been fully downloaded doubleclick it again to start playing it
4. The podcast starts playing, but the seek bar does not have a knob, leaving you unable to seek within it. You have to start another (already downloaded) podcast and then start the one you really want to listen to again to get it to reappear

In case the specific podcast matters, I'm noticing this on the Skeptics Guide of the Universe (http://theskepticsguide.org/feed/rss.aspx?feed=SGU) (I haven't tested other podcasts, but it seems unlikely to me that it matters).

Please let me know if you need more information or I can help in some other way to debug this problem!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: rhythmbox 2.90.1~20110908-0ubuntu1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 11 13:12:33 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-23 (139 days ago)

[Captain Chaos (launchpad-chaos)]

Annoyingly, it doesn't happen every time. I will try to determine what the pattern is, if any.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

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[Neptilo (neptilo)]

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 and tested podcast downloads with Rhythmbox.

The bug does affect me too, though I would make some changes to the steps to reproduce:

1. Subscribe to a podcast

2. Doubleclick on an old episode to download it

3. Start playing it while it is still being downloaded

4. Try seeking a position by clicking on the seek bar. It doesn't work. (The seek bar is disabled.) Even after the download is completed, the seek bar still doesn't work. You have to start another (already downloaded) podcast and then start the one you really want to listen to again to get it to reappear

As unlikely as it may seem, the specific podcast seems to matter. The bug happened for the exact same feed as the OP's, but not for two others that I tested.

Can you reproduce the bug with this specific podcast?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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