As far as I can tell this has nothing to do with banshee. If I try to play music files directly from nautilus it will work (vlc, banshee, rhythmbox) however I notice that on banshee and rhythmbox sometimes it will freeze and you have to move the time slider and it will start playing or it says "idle" and crashes. Can uncrash program by ending process pulseaudio. First noticed this bug with vlc when trying to play files from media library as the files won't show up or play but work fine when running from file manager.
In banshee --debug when hitting play button: [1 Debug 14:22:00.254] Querying model for track to play in song:Next mode [1 Debug 14:22:00.292] Player state change: Idle -> Loading [20 Debug 14:22:00.707] (libbanshee:player) [ReplayGain] Added gain: -10.53 to history. [20 Debug 14:22:00.707] (libbanshee:player) scaled volume: 0.30 (ReplayGain) * 1.00 (User) = 0.30 [1 Debug 14:22:00.707] (libbanshee:player) [gapless] Triggering track-change signal [1 Debug 14:22:00.710] Player state change: Loading -> Loaded [1 Debug 14:22:00.877] Player state change: Loaded -> Playing [1 Debug 14:22:00.940] Creating Pango.Layout, configuring Cairo.Context [1 Debug 14:22:00.940] Creating Pango.Layout, configuring Cairo.Context [1 Debug 14:22:01.895] TrackInfoDisplay RenderAnimation: 30.00 FPS Time slider on idle no music playing, moved it forward, starts playing till the song ends. Then gives no error just sits there on idle then goes dark (crashes). Then I go into system monitor and kill pulseaudio the next song starts playing I and end up with this: [1 Debug 14:33:43.309] (libbanshee:player) bp_stop: setting state to GST_STATE_NULL [1 Debug 14:33:43.309] Player state change: Playing -> Idle [1 Error 14:33:43.311] GStreamer resource error: Failed [1 Debug 14:33:43.561] Querying model for track to play in song:Next mode [1 Debug 14:33:43.597] Player state change: Idle -> Loading Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel jack server is not running or cannot be started [1 Debug 14:33:45.560] (libbanshee:player) Audiosink has volume: NO [1 Debug 14:33:45.566] (libbanshee:player) scaled volume: 1.00 (ReplayGain) * 1.00 (User) = 1.00 [1 Debug 14:33:45.586] TrackInfoDisplay RenderAnimation: 4.00 FPS [1 Debug 14:33:45.761] (libbanshee:player) [gapless] Triggering track-change signal [42 Debug 14:33:45.762] (libbanshee:player) [ReplayGain] Added gain: -3.01 to history. [42 Debug 14:33:45.762] (libbanshee:player) scaled volume: 0.71 (ReplayGain) * 1.00 (User) = 0.71 [1 Debug 14:33:45.763] Player state change: Loading -> Loaded [1 Debug 14:33:45.819] OnEventChanged called with StartOfStream. Replacing current_track with pending_track: "She Blinded Me With Science" [1 Debug 14:33:45.884] Player state change: Loaded -> Playing [1 Debug 14:33:46.907] TrackInfoDisplay RenderAnimation: 32.00 FPS Could be pulseaudio, gtreamer, jack? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to banshee in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1091018 Title: banshee freezes when playing songs Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: On a fresh install on Raring, Banshee is having trouble playing more than one mp3 file. Starting Banshee fresh allows it to play a single mp3, but then it gets to the next one and freezes, requiring a force quit. The log message comes up with something like this: [1 Warn 08:55:53.253] Seem to be stuck loading file:///home/valorin/Music/TobyMac/Christmas%20in%20Diverse%20City/TobyMac%20-%2004%20-%20O%20Come,%20All%20Ye%20Faithful.mp3, so re-trying I can open that file workout any issues Banshee if it's the first file to attempt to listen to. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open Banshee 2. Listen to an mp3 (which works) 3. Wait for the song to finish and banshee will crash. Let me know if there is any other information that would help debug. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: banshee 2.6.0-3ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-6.14-generic 3.7.0 Uname: Linux 3.7.0-6-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.7-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Dec 17 08:59:21 2012 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-14 (2 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20121214) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: banshee UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/1091018/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp