Bug 761309

Summary: Rhythmbox cannot play audio anymore after a while
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stephen So <steve8988>
Component: rhythmboxAssignee: Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: abetakehiko, bnocera
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Description Stephen So 2011-12-08 01:58:37 UTC
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Description of problem:

Rhythmbox seems to stop playing any more audio after a few songs. Once it has 'frozen' (the app is still responsive), it won't play anymore audio in the playlist, not even the previous ones that I played before.  The position slider stays at the beginning and the song name updates, but it's stuck there.

On the song where it has stopped, there is an error icon and message that says 'Failed to link new stream into GStreamer pipeline'

Note that other plays (e.g. Banshee) do not have this problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

rhythmbox-2.90.1-19.git20111104.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Start up Rhythmbox
2.  Load a playlist
3.  Play
  
Actual results:

After 3 or 5 songs, Rhythmbox stops playing anymore and becomes stuck (the UI is still responsive)

Expected results:

It should continue playing without any problems.

Additional info:

This happens on both mp3s and ogg vorbis files.

Comment 1 Stephen So 2011-12-08 02:00:44 UTC
Note that although the UI is responsive, I have to force it to quit.

Comment 2 Takehiko Abe 2012-01-22 14:58:23 UTC
The symptom sounds similar to this gnome.org bug:

    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664831

It has a patch that can easily be applied to the current fc16
rhythmbox-2.90:

    http://git.gnome.org/browse/rhythmbox/patch/?id=a5940fde434f50323009119681a70c9d645fd21f

I'm currently running rhythmbox with it. So far no freeze.

Bug 755274 may be the same bug.

Comment 3 Stephen So 2012-01-23 01:59:36 UTC
I tried turning off cross-fading and it still happens.

Comment 4 Takehiko Abe 2012-01-24 05:40:56 UTC
Did you restart rhythmbox? It seems that the crossfade enable/disable
only takes effect after a restart.

(But then, I realized that the crossfade is not actually working for
me. All I want is gapless playback and that is working.)

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