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[Jon Brase <843333@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Attachment added: "The corrupted file."
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/843333/+attachment/2364026/+files/I.S.Bach-BWV578.ogg

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Title:
  Rhythmbox delivers a misleading error message on encountering a
  corrupted ogg.

Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In my ~/Music folder I have a corrupted copy of
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:I.S.Bach-BWV578.ogg

  Naturally, Rhythmbox will often stop playing this file when in reaches
  the corrupt data (though exactly where it stops and if it stops is
  inconsistent). The problem is that twice it has given the following
  message after choking on the file:

  "Search for suitable plugin?
   The required software to play this file is not installed. You need to install suitable plugins to play media files. Do you want to search for a plugin that supports the selected file?

   The search will also include software which is not officially
  supported."

  This occurs on Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS with Rhythmbox 0.12.8-0ubuntu7

  Expected results: Upon encountering corrupt data, Rhythmbox should
  display an appropriate error message indicating that the file type is
  supported by the installed plugins but the file seems to be corrupt
  and needs to be redownloaded.

  Actual results: Either no error message is displayed and playback
  stops (acceptable but suboptimal, and happens most of the time), or
  playback stops and a misleading error message is displayed indicating
  that a new plugin is required to read the file (this has happened
  twice), despite the fact that the file has already been read
  successfully up to the point where it is corrupted (which presumably
  involves determining that the file type is supported by the current
  plugins).

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