Rhythmbox: "could not pause playback"...

[Andrea Giuliano]

I got almost the same output as your. According to the other reply to my
post by Colin Charles, I'm afraid we have to wait until the bug is
fixed...

Anyway, it's strange that anyone else on the list is happy with
Rhythmbox, despite this bug...

Best regards.

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 16:16, Douglas Furlong wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:00, Andrea Giuliano wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > in the subject you can see the message I get from rhythmbox everytime I
> > try to play any file, may it be OGG, MP3, or WAV.
> I have got the same error message on two machines at home, one using an
> on board sound card of a laptop, the other a fairly cheep sound card in
> a desktop.
> 
> I can get audio working when using XMMS and other applications, it's
> just the Rythmbox that appears to be causing a problem.
> 
> I have run rythmbox with the -d (debug) command and got the output
> below.
> 
> I have posted to the rythmbox dev list, and got no reply after a week or
> so.
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_shell_player_playpause] rb-shell-player.c:1278
> (23:01:21): no playing source, using selected source
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_shell_player_set_playing_source_internal]
> rb-shell-player.c:1723 (23:01:21): setting playing source to 0x8c09fd0
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_shell_player_sync_with_source] rb-shell-player.c:1580
> (23:01:21): playing source: 0x8c09fd0, active entry: (nil)
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_shell_set_window_title] rb-shell.c:1878 (23:01:21):
> clearing title
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_header_sync] rb-header.c:489 (23:01:21): syncing with
> node = (nil)
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_header_sync] rb-header.c:580 (23:01:21): not playing
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_shell_player_sync_buttons] rb-shell-player.c:1643
> (23:01:21): syncing with source 0x8c09fd0
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_linear_play_order_get_next] rb-play-order-linear.c:95
> (23:01:21): choosing next linked entry
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_linear_play_order_get_next] rb-play-order-linear.c:100
> (23:01:21): Player is stopped, picking first entry
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_shell_player_set_play_button] rb-shell-player.c:1536
> (23:01:21): setting play button
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_linear_play_order_get_next] rb-play-order-linear.c:95
> (23:01:21): choosing next linked entry
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_linear_play_order_get_next] rb-play-order-linear.c:100
> (23:01:21): Player is stopped, picking first entry
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_shell_player_open_location] rb-shell-player.c:845
> (23:01:21): Opening file:///media/Music/Various/The Magic of Bill
> Anderson/11-Somtimes.ogg...
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_player_construct] rb-player-gst.c:457 (23:01:21):
> constructing element "pipeline"
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_player_construct] rb-player-gst.c:506 (23:01:21):
> constructing queue
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_player_construct] rb-player-gst.c:519 (23:01:21):
> constructing element "typefind"
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_player_construct] rb-player-gst.c:522 (23:01:21):
> constructing element "decoder"
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_player_construct] rb-player-gst.c:525 (23:01:21):
> constructing element "volume"
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_player_construct] rb-player-gst.c:534 (23:01:21):
> constructing element "audioconvert"
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_player_construct] rb-player-gst.c:537 (23:01:21):
> constructing element "audioscale"
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_player_construct] rb-player-gst.c:576 (23:01:21):
> pipeline construction complete
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_player_sync_pipeline] rb-player-gst.c:627 (23:01:21):
> syncing pipeline
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_player_sync_pipeline] rb-player-gst.c:658 (23:01:21):
> decoding gst version to check if we may free the audio sink
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_player_sync_pipeline] rb-player-gst.c:669 (23:01:21):
> PAUSING pipeline
> Got error opening
> "file:///media/Music/Various/The%20Magic%20of%20Bill%20Anderson/11-Somtimes.ogg": Could not pause playback
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_shell_player_sync_with_source] rb-shell-player.c:1580
> (23:01:21): playing source: 0x8c09fd0, active entry: (nil)
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_shell_set_window_title] rb-shell.c:1878 (23:01:21):
> clearing title
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_header_sync] rb-header.c:489 (23:01:21): syncing with
> node = (nil)
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_header_sync] rb-header.c:580 (23:01:21): not playing
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_shell_player_sync_buttons] rb-shell-player.c:1643
> (23:01:21): syncing with source 0x8c09fd0
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_linear_play_order_get_next] rb-play-order-linear.c:95
> (23:01:21): choosing next linked entry
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_linear_play_order_get_next] rb-play-order-linear.c:100
> (23:01:21): Player is stopped, picking first entry
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_shell_player_set_play_button] rb-shell-player.c:1536
> (23:01:21): setting play button
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_playlist_manager_save_playlists]
> rb-playlist-manager.c:581 (23:01:21): saving the playlists
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_playlist_manager_save_playlists]
> rb-playlist-manager.c:584 (23:01:21): no save needed, ignoring
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_playlist_manager_save_playlists]
> rb-playlist-manager.c:581 (23:01:31): saving the playlists
> [0x8ac2c60] [rb_playlist_manager_save_playlists]
> rb-playlist-manager.c:584 (23:01:31): no save needed, ignoring
> 
> My message to the list is
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2004-June/msg00011.html
> 
> Doug
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