Sorry for the late reply. Your copies of Rhythmbox don't export the MPRIS dbus interface which is needed for the sound menu to discover and manipulate media players. Do you have the MPRIS plugin enabled?
** Changed in: indicator-sound Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-sound in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245495 Title: Rhythmbox controls and track info broken Status in Sound Menu: Incomplete Status in “indicator-sound” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: A Rhythmbox section appears in the indicator menu as it should but there are several glitches: When RB isn't running > click on the icon in the indicator > RB starts as expected :-) When RB is running > click on the icon in the indicator > RB icon wiggles in launcher but window doesn't come to focus :-( Track info and album art appears in notifications, but is never shown in the sound menu. Regardless of whether RB is running: Sound menu track controls (prev, play/pause, next) do nothing. The play/pause button has a dotted orange ring, which turns to an orange square on mouseover (see screenshots). Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit unity: 7.1.2+13.10.20131014.1-0ubuntu1 indicator-sound: 12.10.2+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1 rhythmbox: 2.99.1-0ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-sound/+bug/1245495/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp