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Rhythmbox is an audio player for Unix that plays and helps organize digital music. It is a core part of the GNOME Desktop environment.

Rhythmbox is an audio player for Unix that plays and helps organize digital music. It is a core part of the GNOME Desktop environment.

It is based on the media framework and can be integrated into other applications of the desktop such as , or .

Website: http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythmbox

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Start a song from a specific time in rhythmbox using command line

I would like to start a song from my terminal, starting from the first minute. i.e.: the command will run the music.mp3 starting from the minute 1. I am able to run a music with rhythmbox music.mp3 However it is starting from 0. How to do it for…
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How does one sort music in Rhythmbox?

I quite like Rythmbox and was thinking of keeping it as my default player, but as far as I can tell there's no easy way to sort an album in a playlist by track number, or a genre by artist, etc. Responses to this post seem to suggest that I have to…
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Can't get global hotkeys working in Rhythmbox 3.1

To be specific, the volume knob & mute are working fine everywhere. Play, pause, next, & previous are working fine in Exaile, but not in Rhythmbox. I uninstalled Exaile after using it to test the hotkeys, just in case. The keyboard shortcuts are set…
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Why can't Rhythmbox play most of the files from my mt-daap share?

I have the Firefly Media Server (mt-daap) set up on an Ubuntu 10.10 VM, and I Ubuntu 10.10 set up on my laptop. I am running Rhythmbox and using that to play the music files off the daap share. Unfortunetly, very few of the files play -- Rhythmbox…
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Trouble viewing iPod in Rhythmbox

Once in a blue moon, my ipod (160 GB) will show up in rhythmbox on my ubuntu 12.04 laptop when I plug it it, but most of the time nothing happens. It shows up when I do fdisk -l, but when I try to mount it by sudo mount /dev/sdd1 /media/ipod, where…
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Cannot "resume" music

I've had the following issue across multiple music players and multiple distro's. Currently I am experiencing it in Rhythmbox on Arch Linux. Whenever I play music and then pause a track I am unable to resume it, it simply seems to "stay paused".…
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Rhythmbox can't find music on my Android device

Rhythmbox on my Arch Linux shows my smartphone on the devices list, but it's unable to find any music on it. I installed mtp and mtpfs and also enabled the mtp plugin in Rhythmbox. I also added a .is_audio_player file with this…
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How to register rhythmbox service on system dbus?

Installed rhythmbox and rhythmbox-plugins but there is no org.Rhythmbox in the list of available dbus services. To view the list I use: dbus-send --system \ --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus \ --type=method_call \ --print-reply …
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Install MP3 decoder plugin in Fedora

When I attempt to play a mp3 file Rhythmbox displays the following error: How can I install the mentioned plugin?
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Rhythmbox error while saving song information: Could not multiplex stream

I play a lot of .ra or .rm files in Rhythmbox. It plays fine but when I try to edit with the property box it says: Error while saving song information Could not multiplex stream. But it works fine with other file types. My system is Mint 12 (32bit)…
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How do I install CoverArt Browser plugin on Arch Linux for Rhythmbox?

I am a Unix & Linux enthusiast and control freak who loves the freedom of Arch Linux, yet does not fully understand everything. Could somebody help me get this thing running? It is not on the AUR, so I tried setting it up myself: Attempt 1 cd…
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rhel repositories with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

What yum repository provides gstreamer-plugins-ugly (or/and other gstreamer plugins) for Red Hat Linux 6? And do repositories for CentOS and Fedora suit for Red Hat? Reason of this question is that explicit query of RHEL repositories in Google leads…
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Rhythmbox randomly fails to play songs after upgrade to F36

I've recently upgraded to F36 - everything is great, except Rhythmbox will randomly fail to play MP3's that used to work. If I try a few times, it will play the files, so it's not like the files were corrupted. Audio works fine in Firefox. I'm not…
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Rhythmbox and soundcloud

Recently I installed Rhythmbox application on my laptop, which uses Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, and I faced a problem with soundcloud plugin, which I had installed in program. How can I add my music to Rhythmbox with this plugin? There is no button like…
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Rhythmbox doesn't launch linux mint Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa

when i click on rythmbox he doent start i tried to open it from terminal abdou@abdou:~$ rhythmbox %U Bus error I thought the probleme from app it self so searched for alternative to rhythmbox . i installed Strawberry Music Player and guess what…
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