[ubuntu-uk] Cranky old Rhythmbox

Fri May 10 20:27:16 UTC 2013

Enjoying ELO on VLC, thank you for reminding me about media players,

P.S. I downloaded this from utube... very naughty.. But every one should
have a bit of ELO in their life.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phA_Jw0Q0co

Regards,

Phill.

On 10 May 2013 21:18, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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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