[ubuntu-uk] Cranky old Rhythmbox

Fri May 10 20:18:36 UTC 2013

Hi,

I have installed Rythmbox and realised quickly why I do not use it.

I did mention of my preference for VLC. Well, Rythmbox has scoured my hard
drives for about two hours and found nothing. At this point. with you
stating that 2.99 is their final release and it does now seem to be
abandonware, if you stick with Rythmbox you will not get patches.

Regards,

Phill.

On 10 May 2013 20:28, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Well, like I said, I've got three machines, all set up identically with
> vanilla 13.04 64-bit ISO from the same USB stick, and AFAICS it only
> happens on one of them, which unfortunately is my favourite, an old Lenovo
> N500 with a really comfortable touchpad. Rhythmbox cannot play two albums
> in succession, even immediate succession, without being closed and reopened.
>
> I didn't acknowledge Phill's statement that he would let me know of
> guidance for installing Rhythmbox 2.99 from the FTP package. But I look
> forward to that. Thanks, Phill.
>
> By the way, do you remember I mentioned the absence of the unread mail
> indicator on the Thunderbird launcher? I reported it as a bug on
> Launchpad.net and was immediately informed it had already been reported,
> twice, and will be fixed.
>
> On 10/05/13 20:11, Neil Greenwood wrote:
>
> Top- posting because the rest of the thread is...
>
> I have rhythmbox running fine in 13.04, with 6000+ tracks (not sure how
> many albums). I've had it open since I booted, about 2 weeks ago. I suspend
> every night too. Plays fine, although I have seen problems like those
> mentioned previously.
>
> Neil.
>
> On 10 May 2013 15:19, "Phill Whiteside" <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > I use gmail, so it all appears in the correct order to me. I believe
> there is a seperate thread on the way email clients work.
> >
> > As Rhythmbox is searching my music collection, I don't want to stress
> the computer out too much - It's using 100% of one of my two CPU's.
> >
> > I'll have a look at what is needed for 2.99 and let you know.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phill.
> >
> >
> > On 10 May 2013 15:08, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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> 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>
> 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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