I'm seeing the same behaviour: player hangs on mp3 files when cross-fade is enabled. I've reported this on bugzilla.gnome.org and linked to the bug there in the "affected projects". Note that I also saw the buggy seekbar behaviour in 8.10 that people are reporting, as well as the absence of times, but mp3 files still managed to play then.
I'm seeing the same behaviour: player hangs on mp3 files when cross-fade is enabled. I've reported this on bugzilla.gnome.org and linked to the bug there in the "affected projects". Note that I also saw the buggy seekbar behaviour in 8.10 that people are reporting, as well as the absence of times, but mp3 files still managed to play then.