banshee moves to next song then stops playback

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I see the same thing: song plays, but when the next song comes up Banshee just stops playing sound.

Files play fine using vlc, so it's not pulseaudio or the kernel driver.

On 09/02/2012 16:00, Martijn vdS wrote:
> I see the same thing: song plays, but when the next song comes up
> Banshee just stops playing sound.
>
> Files play fine using vlc, so it's not pulseaudio or the kernel driver.
>

Does the UI also freeze? Please get the output of Banshee found in
~/.config/banshee-1/log when that happens (or if you can, the output of banshee
--debug with the bug produced).

  status incomplete

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

Attached is my log from Banshee. After the last line, and within five minutes, it happened. I will try to get a --debug output later.
The UI is still responsive, though the play/pause toggle doesn't do anything, just switches the icon around. As soon as I double click the song it is trying to play, it plays fine. Also, if I hit "next" manually, the next song plays fine. It doesn't happen immediately, but after a few songs have already played.

On 09/02/2012 21:05, Christian Smith wrote:
> Attached is my log from Banshee. After the last line, and within five minutes, it happened. I will try to get a --debug output later.
> The UI is still responsive, though the play/pause toggle doesn't do anything, just switches the icon around. As soon as I double click the song it is trying to play, it plays fine. Also, if I hit "next" manually, the next song plays fine. It doesn't happen immediately, but after a few songs have already played.
>
> ** Attachment added: "log file with no --debug switch"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/927742/+attachment/2726481/+files/log
>

Sounds like a GStreamer issue, or something regarding how Banshee is using
GStreamer. Do you have gapless playback enabled in preferences? If you do, could
you disable it and try again?

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

Attached a debug output of the last three or four songs. The last song ("Outro") never started playing. I am going to repeat this with gapless turned off now.

Totem has the same issue for me. I think "gstreamer issue" is a good bet.

Turning off gapless playback did seem to fix the issue.

I've forwarded this bug to the upstream bug tracker (see the gnome-bugs link above). Please subscribe yourself to that bug for updates.

Also happens in Amarok 2.xx for me.

On 14/05/2012 23:05, Joris Bierkens wrote:
> Also happens in Amarok 2.xx for me.
>

But Amarok doesn't use Gstreamer for playback, so it's probably unrelated.

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

I'm getting that all the time, with both Banshee and Rhythmbox.

On 28/05/2012 22:56, Daniel d'Andrada wrote:
> I'm getting that all the time, with both Banshee and Rhythmbox.

Could you check what file-types they're getting stuck on?

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

> Could you check what file-types they're getting stuck on?

Yesterday it happened only once, and it was on a .ogg file.

Sounds like the issue I had, see this duplicate and the solution (switch gapless playback off)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/917035/comments/19

I seem to be also affected by the bug. I have "gapless" enabled and it seems to happen randomly on tracks that play fine otherwise.

Thank you Brendan_P for pointing out that disabling the "gapless" seems to fix it, but it can hardly be called a "solution" as the bug itself is still there (just not affecting you).

I think the bug is a minor annoyance with low priority as the application runs fine and doesn't lock up. Though it would be nice to see a fix in the future.

I'm not sure how much it helps me posting here. Should I some comment about me being affected by this as well on bugzilla#669929 ?

Agree Floris, the bug should be fixed not worked around. Just wanted to save some folks the pain of trying to get it "working" and hopefully it helps devs pin point where it's all going wrong too.

The workaround of disabling the gapless playback option doesn't work for me, I still get these random stops on song change (Ubuntu 12.04, Banshee 2.4.0 - also tried 2.4.1, which is in proposed at the moment, but same there)

This issue still occurs with flac/ogg files as of Quantal/Banshee 2.6

For me it affects mp3 too. To be exact, playing stops at switches between mp3 and mp3.

Versions: Raring 13.04,
banshee:amd64 2.6.1-1ubuntu1.2
libgstreamer0.10-0:amd64 0.10.36-1ubuntu2
libgstreamer0.10-0:i386 0.10.36-1ubuntu2
libgstreamer1.0-0:amd64 1.0.6-1

I can confirm this is still the case in my configuration -- Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (14.04), 64 bit desktop version, and banshee 2.6.2.

It is somewhat ironic that enabling the "gapless playback" option actually CAUSES a gap in playback.

I do not experience playback fully stopping, and in my case it is also not intermittent. Instead, each song begins playing, and then after just the first fraction of a second of music, I hear about a half second of silence, then the playback continues.

Duplicate here?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/978604

Still ongoing issue.