Bug#430075: rhythmbox skips the first half second

[Tino Keitel]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 18:27:23 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 23:33 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > > > One could argue that something in my audio setup is fishy, but this
> > > > only happens in rhythmbox. I tried mplayer and xmms and both hadn't the
> > > > skip problem.
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Can you try this command and see if the problem is Rhythmbox or
> > > GStreamer;
> > > 
> > >         gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///path/to/song.mp3
> > > 
> > > You'll need the gstreamer-tools package.
> > 
> > It seems to be a hardware/ALSA problem. Now it happens with xmms and
> > mpg123, too. It looks like the digital output is sort of disabled until
> > I play something, and it takes a while after I start playback until I
> > can hear something.
> > 
> > My amplifier shows "48 kHz" for the digital input when nothing is
> > played, and switches to 44,1 kHz when I start playback. Maybe that's
> > the culprit.
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I'm not sure where this bug report belongs, or how to handle it. The
> alsa maintainers obviously didn't think the bug belonged there.
> 
> Did something in your configuration change, do you use the digital
> output for all music players now (xmms and mpg123 mentioned above) and
> didn't before?

No, I always used the digital output, with the same hardware (Mac mini
Core Duo), the same amplifier etc.

Only the usual alsa/kernel updates.

Regards,
Tino