Totem and Rhythmbox think mp3 files are streams

MMXZ · #1 7th October 2009, 01:03 AM

Sorry for troubling you guys, but if I play an MP3 file in either Totem or Rhythmbox, it thinks it's streaming them, which prevents me from being able to skip to a certain part of the song and the progress bar is greyed out. How do I fix this?

**Finalzone** · #2 7th October 2009, 07:32 PM

Which Fedora release are you using? Have you updated both applications.

MMXZ · #3 8th October 2009, 12:29 AM

I'm currently using 64-bit Fedora 11. I don't know how to update individual programs. I've uninstalled and re-installed rhythmbox through terminal (yum erase rhythmbox / yum install rhythmbox), but that didn't help. I did update both programs, but that didn't work either. It's been like this since I installed Fedora.

**Finalzone** · #4 11th October 2009, 07:14 AM

Try to use this command

Code:

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gstreamer*

Should it fail to solve the issue, please submit a bug report.

Jun01 · #5 25th December 2009, 08:53 AM

I'm having the same problem, though I'm using Fedora 12 i686 version, installed from the Live CD. Tried to solve the problem reinstalling gstreamer-plugins-bad and gstreamer-plugins-ugly, and also rhythmbox itself. None of them worked.

Does anyone have any idea of what's going on?

Laserman · #6 25th December 2009, 11:31 AM

Both Totem and Rhythmbox playback are normal on my system, F12 i686.
Do you have the RPMFusion repos enabled? Try:

Code:

yum install rhythmbox gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-ffmpeg

Jun01 · #7 26th December 2009, 07:15 AM

Well, apparently, the problem is solved, at least for me. Thanks!

First I reinstalled the packages Laserman mentioned. The problem persisted, but then I found out that Rhythmbox was not recognizing the bitrate of most of my mp3 files. The ones whose bitrate was recognized were "skippable". So I rebuilt my music library and now everything is working just fine.