Comment 23 for bug 273294

I have the same problem on two different machines both running ubuntu 9.04.

Emmanuels excellent suggestion of using "gnomevfs-ls smb://smbserver/mymusic" fixed the problem for me too, but it's localized to rhythmbox as VLC and Movie Player has no problems regardless of whether gnomevfs-ls has been run or not.

I am also certain there is a problem with rhythmbox as calling gstreamer directly as instructed in /usr/share/doc/rhythmbox/README.debian (i.e. gst-launch playbin uri=smb://smbserver/mymusic/musicfile.ogg) plays the music.