Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] playing streams hangs RB

[Ruben Vermeersch <lists lambda1 be>]

This is something that happens a lot when playing di.fm streams, it
hangs when fetching the playlist. Seems like hell to make that one
asynchronous

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 17:38, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 10:52, John Russell wrote:
> > I am running RB 0.8 with gstreamer backend.  Every time I try to play
> > any of the preset radio stations, RB hangs.  It becomes unresponsive and
> > stops repainting when other windows move on top of it.
> 
> Probably the site is down.
> 
> > Below is the rythmbox --debug output from when I press play on one of
> > the radio stations.  It appears to hang when making the connection,
> > however, this happened with every radio station I tried (at least 5). 
> > 
> > If the station can't be contacted, should the UI hang like this?
> 
> No, but fixing it is hard.  It is something I do plan to do though.
> 
> > Is there any way to recover?
> > Are all of these presets out of date and now unavailable?
> 
> Possibly some of them are.  Honestly I only really use the SomaFM ones. 
> In the future I'd like to get David Dollar's start on an icecast
> directory integrated and just ship that.
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Ruben Vermeersch
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