[ubuntu-uk] Cranky old Rhythmbox

[Rowan Berkeley]

H'mm. I've also tried reinstalling from the repository, using Synaptic, 
and it doesn't make any difference, and looking at it, the thing in the 
repository is also 2.98. But if I was to download 2.99 from the FTP page 
you indicated, wouldn't I have to do all the configuration manually? 
That would be totally beyond me. By the way, we shouldn't be top posting 
like this. It forces people to read the conversation from bottom to top 
as well as from top to bottom.

On 10/05/13 14:44, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> 13.04 has installed 2.98 have a check on 'help --> about"
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill
>
>
> On 10 May 2013 14:42, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rowan.berkeley at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     According to that ftp page, 2.99 was the last version they made
>     before they stopped, evidently imagining it was as perfect as it
>     could ever be. I assume that's what I've got, because I assume
>     that's what's delivered in the complete Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit ISO,
>     which is what I have installed.
>
>
>     On 10/05/13 14:21, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>>     Just while I install it and vlc, it is time to ask the usual
>>     silly question... So do forgive me!
>>
>>     Have you got the latest version from
>>     http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/
>>
>>     I'm a VLC fan, but have had rhythmbox running well in the past
>>     with a large library.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>
>>     Phill.
>>     P.S. this is a clean 13.04 lubuntu install, so I need to 'add'
>>     things to it :)
>>
>>     On 10 May 2013 14:07, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:rowan.berkeley at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         On 10/05/13 13:55, Alan Pope wrote:
>>
>>             On 10/05/13 13:33, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>>
>>                 I find that in 13.04 (though not as far as I can
>>                 recall, previously), it
>>                 is impossible to leave Rhythmbox running after use,
>>                 ie for instance
>>                 having played an album to leave it running and an
>>                 hour later to try to
>>                 play another one. It goes berzerk. Most usually it
>>                 will skip through
>>                 tracks at great speed,
>>
>>
>>             That sounds like your media is on a mounted / removable
>>             device which has since gone away / been unmounted? The
>>             skipping through tracks is often when it says "ok, what
>>             track is next, lets play it, oh, it's gone, ok, next
>>             track.. " etc.
>>
>>             Cheers,
>>
>>         I don't mean it looks for them one after another in rapid
>>         succession and doesn't find them; I mean it literally skips
>>         through each track, jumping e.g. thirty seconds at a time.
>>         But this is just the commonest immediate symptom of a general
>>         haywireness that sets in if it has been left running but idle
>>         for more than a few minutes. By the way, AFAIK, I only have
>>         this on one of my three machines, but they are all
>>         identically set up, with completely fresh installs of 13.04
>>         and then all files, including the 1850+ albums, reloaded from
>>         an external hard drive. This takes an hour or two for each
>>         fresh install, but it gives me maximum free space, so I do it
>>         happily, rather than install the new versions keeping the old
>>         files and settings.
>>
>>
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