Subject: rhythmbox: fails to play network audio streams

From: Martin-Éric Racine <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:15:47 +0300

Package: rhythmbox
Version: 3.1-1
Severity: important

Rhythmbox stalls during buffering when accessing any network audio stream.

Here's a sample stream that stalls this way:

181.fm Soul: < http://108.61.73.115:8058 >

The same stream plays back immediately without any problem using VLC.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (1001, 'testing'), (1001, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rhythmbox depends on:
ii  dbus                            1.8.8-2
ii  gnome-icon-theme                3.12.0-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base       1.4.3-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good       1.4.3-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-x                  1.4.3-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                     2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                           2.19-11
ii  libcairo-gobject2               1.12.16-5
ii  libcairo2                       1.12.16-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0              2.30.8-1+b1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1           1.42.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.42.0-2
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0  1.4.3-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0               1.4.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                      3.14.1-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                  215-5+b1
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0      2.4.6-1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0              1.0.2-1
ii  libnotify4                      0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                  1.36.8-2
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0             1.36.8-2
ii  libpeas-1.0-0                   1.12.1-1
ii  librhythmbox-core8              3.1-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                    2.48.0-1
ii  libtdb1                         1.3.1-1
ii  libtotem-plparser18             3.10.3-1
ii  libwebkitgtk-3.0-0              2.4.6-1
ii  libx11-6                        2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxml2                         2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  media-player-info               19-1
ii  rhythmbox-data                  3.1-1
ii  zlib1g                          1:1.2.8.dfsg-2

Versions of packages rhythmbox recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon               0.6.31-4
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly  1.4.3-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio    1.4.3-1
ii  gvfs-backends              1.22.0-1+b1
ii  notification-daemon        0.7.6-1
ii  rhythmbox-plugins          3.1-1
ii  yelp                       3.14.0-1

Versions of packages rhythmbox suggests:
pn  gnome-codec-install          <none>
ii  gnome-control-center         1:3.14.0-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad     1.4.3-2
ii  rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder  3.1-1

-- no debconf information