Bug #444
Seeking ends playback of some MP3 files
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Description
Seeking is broken. Dragging or clicking on time slider causes Audacious to skip to next song. It's been this way for a long time (almost a year or longer). It used to work fine, but broke after an update. Now I use VLC when seeking is needed. I noticed that I can seek slowly by right-clicking on the time slider causing the song to shift backward or forward by a few seconds, but this is tedious and if I do it too quickly then Audacious skips to the next song on the playlist, just as if I dragged the slider. The same behaviour is observed using both the GTK and Winamp skins. I reinstalled Audacious and the problem persists.
Program: Audacious
OS: Linux Mint 14 Nadia 32-bit
Kernel: Linux 3.12
Interface: Cinnamon 2.0.14
Processor: Intel Celeron Dualcore CPU E3300 @ 2.5GHz
Memory: 3GB DDR2 800
Audio Device: Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) Onboard HD Audio Controller
Audio Driver: I'm not sure, so I'll list all the kernal audio modules that are currently loaded:
snd_seq_dummy
snd_hrtimer
snd_hda_codec_hdmi
snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec
snd_hwdep
snd_pcm
snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi
snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq
snd_timer
snd_seq_device
soundcore
snd_page_alloc
Video Device: GeForce GT 610 PCIe
Video Driver: Nvidia 331.20
History
#1
Updated by John Lindgren about 10 years ago
Updated by Please provide an example file and/or the output of "audacious -V".
#2
Updated by Grant Cloete about 10 years ago
Updated by - File Log 1 - Using An mp3 File.txt Log 1 - Using An mp3 File.txt added
- File Log 2 - Using An m4a File.txt Log 2 - Using An m4a File.txt added
It's a good thing you asked me for an example file, coz I just discovered now that the behaviour does not occur with m4a or avi files, but does occur with mp3 files. I'd bet the problem is related to the mp3 codec. If you like I could check a few other formats and list any that exhibit the same problem as mp3 files. As for the output of audacious -V, I ran Audacious in a terminal then copied the contents of the terminal to two txt files, one where I run an mp3 file (and the problem occurs), and one where I run an m4a (AAC) file (and the problem does not occur). I figured this might help you troubleshoot the problem more easily. I used the GTK skin in both instances.
#3
Updated by John Lindgren about 10 years ago
Can you email me one of the MP3 files? I play MP3s all the time, and seeking works fine, so I don't know what is special about these ones.
#4
Updated by Grant Cloete about 10 years ago
- File Example 1 - Working File (No Skip).mp3 Example 1 - Working File (No Skip).mp3 added
- File Example 2 - Working File (No Skip).mp3 Example 2 - Working File (No Skip).mp3 added
- File Example 3 - Problematic File (Skips).mp3 Example 3 - Problematic File (Skips).mp3 added
- File Example 4 - Problematic File (Skips).mp3 Example 4 - Problematic File (Skips).mp3 added
Mmm, this is interesting. It seems that not all my mp3 files have this problem, but I can't find any connection between ones that don't work. Okay, I'll upload two files, one that has the problem and one that doesn't. Of course, as soon as you download the files, I'll remove them from this page.
#5
Updated by Grant Cloete about 10 years ago
(duplicate comment removed)
#6
Updated by Grant Cloete about 10 years ago
Um, how can I go about editing my own post? I messed up with post #5.
#7
Updated by John Lindgren about 10 years ago
Grant Cloete wrote:
Um, how can I go about editing my own post? I messed up with post #5.
You might need additional permissions to do that (I'm not sure). Anyway, I removed the duplicate post. I'll take a look at the files later tonight.
#8
Updated by John Lindgren about 10 years ago
I can seek to any point in all four files here. Can you do for me:
1. Post the output of mpg123 --version.
2. Move your Audacious configuration (~/.config/audacious) to a backup location and try running with an empty configuration.
3. Try changing the output plugin to ALSA, with PCM device "hw:0,0", instead of PulseAudio.
It's tough to figure out what the problem is when it works on one system and not another.
#9
Updated by Grant Cloete about 10 years ago
1. The terminal says mpg123 isn't installed and prompts me to install it. I checked mpg321, and that isn't installed either. So then this must be the problem then, huh?
2. I did that, but the problem persists. I just renamed the config/audacious folder to config/audacious.bak, but I can confirm that the configuration was empty when I checked, since none of my playlists were loaded.
3. Where or how to change my audio plugin?
#10
Updated by John Lindgren about 10 years ago
Probably you have only the library component of mpg123 installed (libmpg123) but not the command-line player. Try "dpkg -s libmpg123-0" to get the version number.
The preferences window has an "Audio" page with a dropdown list of installed plugins.
#11
Updated by John Lindgren about 10 years ago
- Subject changed from Seeking is broken. to Seeking ends playback of some MP3 files
#12
Updated by Grant Cloete about 10 years ago
// Output from Terminal:
grant@grant-MS-7519 ~ $ dpkg -s libmpg123-0
Package: libmpg123-0
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 390
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: i386
Multi-Arch: same
Source: mpg123
Version: 1.14.2+svn20120622-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15)
Pre-Depends: multiarch-support
Description: MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio decoder (shared library)
mpg123 is a real time MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 audio player/decoder for layers
1, 2 and 3 (MPEG 1.0 layer 3 also known as MP3).
.
This package contains the C libraries needed to run executables that use
the mpg123 library.
Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Homepage: http://mpg123.org/
grant@grant-MS-7519 ~ $
// Changing Audacious output plugin to ALSA with PCM Device set to "hw:0,0" does not fix the problem. Same behaviour as with PulseAudio. Seeking works with a few mp3 //files, but skips when seeking with the other mp3 files.
#13
Updated by John Lindgren about 10 years ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
You have an old version of mpg123 that is lacking this bug fix:
http://www.mpg123.de/cgi-bin/scm/mpg123?view=revision&revision=3212
You will have to update or patch mpg123.
#14
Updated by Grant Cloete about 10 years ago
Awesome stuff. Now I can finally get rid of that problem. Just need to find a way to update mpg123. Thanks.
#15
Updated by John Lindgren over 9 years ago
- Target version deleted (
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