Rhythmbox doen't play

[Matthew Nicholson]

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 07:13 +0200, Jochen Skulj wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Matthew Nicholson schrieb:
> > On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 06:41 +0200, Jochen Skulj wrote:
> >> Since a couple of days I have major problems using rhythmbox. It often
> >> occurs that it doesn't play. Instead of this, the progress slider keeps
> >> standing at 0:00 and jumps back to that position if I try to drag it on
> >> another position.
> >>
> >> If I start rhythmbox in a terminal I get following warning:
> >>
> >> (rhythmbox:5480): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to start mDNS browsing
> >>
> > 
> > this has to do with dapp (iTunes) music sharing. its harmless. it means
> > the avahi-daemon package isn't installed, do it cannot browse for
> > shares/share your music. it shouldn't have anything to do with the other
> > problems you reported. 
> 
> Yes, I have now noticed that this warning appears always. So it has
> obviously nothing to do with my problem.
> 
> >> This problem occurs quite often, but  not always. Until now I haven't
> >> found a better solution than booting in these cases. There might be some
> >> process blocking the audio system (which I may can kill), but I don't
> >> know which.
> >>
> >> From my point of view this problem exists since the recent major Gnome
> >> update. I can't remember having issues with rhythmbox under Dapper before.
> >>
> > 
> > what rhythmbox version are you running? ubuntu? do you have the
> > gstreamer-plugins for whatever type of audio file your attempting to
> > play installed? rhythmbox has moved to gstreamer-10, from 8, so if you
> > used to have them, you might not now. 
> 
> Actually I did a fresh install of Dapper a couple of weeks before. So I
> am running rhythmbox 0.9.3.1, gstreamer-10 and the plugins for MP3 (
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse,  gstreamer0.10-plugins).

> Jochen

hmm, well then.....i would try running rhythmbox from teh command like
in debug mode (rhythmbox -d) and see if you see anything crazy. i'd be
more than happy to look at it for you since rhythmbox is one of the
project i  pay the most attention to. 
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