Rhytmbox won’t play. The system is showing two instances of it now too, for some reason. I haven’t tried to use it in a long time, so have no idea how that happened.
Should I uninstall and reinstall?
Sure, remember to backup any important files first.
You can click on Play button? It transforms to Pause? What happened exactly?
Does progress bar run?
You can try to run Rhythmbox with debug enabled:
$ pkill -9 rhythmbox
$ rhythmbox -d # What does it output on Play clicked?
Also journals may help:
$ systemctl --user -f
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From an MP3 file, I click to open with Rhythmbox. Then Rhythmbox opens, but there’s nothing there.
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This way nothing will go right.
Rhythmbox is not a classic music player like Winamp/XMMS, it doesn’t just play the file which you open.
Rhythmbox is collection-based music player like iTunes. You set where your music collection is located, e. g. your music directory is ~/Music/, set this in Settings. Then Rhythmbox scans this directory and adds all found music tracks to its database by ID3 tags.
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