[ubuntu-uk] Cranky old Rhythmbox
pete smout
psmouty at live.com
Sat May 11 09:06:16 UTC 2013
On 10/05/13 21:18, Phill Whiteside 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
> <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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
>> <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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Just to stick a word in for clementine for a fully featured audio player
(no video) but for music best i've found.
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