Comments on: Tip: Gapless Playback In Rhythmbox

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:59:14 +0000

@Chazzer – This article is pretty old now so the instructions may be out of date. Sorry about that. I haven’t had any problems with Rhythmbox on Ubuntu 10.10 but I’ve only tested it a little bit. It seems everyone is moving towards Banshee as the main Linux desktop media player right now. Ubuntu will be using it as default with the next release. It has a much faster pace of development and Rhythmbox has been floundering without any development drive recently. It’s sad really as I’ve supported it a long time. Try Banshee if you get really stuck and see how you get on.

By: Chazzer

Chazzer — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:02:07 +0000

Playback with Rhythmbox used to work perfectly for me until I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 whereupon a distinct audible gap between tracks emerged, especially irritating during a crossfade. I have recently stepped up to Ubuntu 10.10 hoping the problem would go but alas I still have the annoying gap.
I have wondered whether the fault has something to do with my old system but hey, it all worked so well with Ubuntu 9.04. Does the latest Rhythmbox 0.13.1 require a higher spec machine to function properly? Could my problem be with the OS itself?
I have fiddled with the playback prefs (which incidentally are different in RB 0.13.1 to the screen images shown in Dan’s article) but nothing has worked to remove the gap.

By: Kushal

Kushal — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:22:38 +0000

It still doesn’t work for me. Just like how Shane said earlier, there is a clear switch between the songs.

By: jared

jared — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:43:23 +0000

Great Thanks. That was easy.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:00:54 +0000

@Martin – Good news, I’ll have to get the new version and give it a try. Thanks

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:09:33 +0000

Rhythmbox 0.12.2 has now the gapless-feature we were all waiting for I guess. It’s pretty cool =)

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:46:50 +0000

@shane Oh I’m sorry to hear it’s not working for you. I works pretty well for me

By: shane

shane — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:35:43 +0000

still doesn’t work that great though, there’s no gap but there is still a clear switch between songs and it certainly isn’t 100% seamless.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:08:44 +0000

@nate No worries dude, glad you find it useful. Gaps between tracks really piss me off sometimes as I said

By: Nathan Dotz

Nathan Dotz — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:02:11 +0000

Wow, I didn’t even know rhythmbox could do this. cheers man!