I'm seeing the same behaviour: player hangs on mp3 files when cross-fade is enabled. I've reported this on bugzilla.gnome.org and linked to the bug there in the "affected projects". Note that I also saw the buggy seekbar behaviour in 8.10 that people are reporting, as well as the absence of times, but mp3 files still managed to play then.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #586905 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586905 ** Also affects: rhythmbox via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586905 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Rhythmbox 0.12.0 time unknown, seekbar disabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373534 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs