Bug#885950: rhythmbox: gui freezes

[Gary Koskenmaki]

Package: rhythmbox
Version: 3.4.2-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,



   When choosing a song to play from a playlist the song begins to play
but the entire gui interface freezes.  The text next to the start,
pause, back, and forward buttons says Not Playing.  The timer does not
advance and is greyed out.  This stays like this for about a minute and
then the interface works again until the end of that song or I attempt
to manually choose another song. Then the interface freezes again with
the timer showing the end of the previous song and all buttons become
frozen and the first song chosen is continued to be displayed, but the
next song on the playlist plays.  It will play all the songs on the
playlist chosen, but the interface remains frozen from that time on.

I don't know if this matters but I ripped all cd's using soundjuicer
and the .flac file type.  And I have disabled all plugins without it
making a difference.





-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages rhythmbox depends on:
ii  dbus                            1.12.2-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base       1.12.4-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good       1.12.4-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-x                  1.12.4-1
ii  libc6                           2.25-5
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.54.2-4
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0  1.12.4-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0               1.12.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                      3.22.26-2
ii  libpeas-1.0-0                   1.22.0-2
ii  librhythmbox-core10             3.4.2-1
ii  libx11-6                        2:1.6.4-3
ii  media-player-info               23-1
ii  rhythmbox-data                  3.4.2-1

Versions of packages rhythmbox recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon                            0.7-3
ii  gnome-flashback [notification-daemon]   3.26.0-2
ii  gnome-shell [notification-daemon]       3.22.3-3
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly               1:1.12.4-dmo1
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio                 1.12.4-1
ii  gvfs-backends                           1.34.1-2
ii  notification-daemon                     3.20.0-2
ii  plasma-workspace [notification-daemon]  4:5.10.5-2+b1
ii  rhythmbox-plugins                       3.4.2-1
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]     0.4.1-1
ii  yelp                                    3.26.0-2

Versions of packages rhythmbox suggests:
pn  gnome-codec-install          <none>
ii  gnome-control-center         1:3.24.3-1+b1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad     1:1.12.2-dmo1
ii  rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder  3.4.2-1

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