Ah so I just followed a chain of bugs to get myself a pretty good workaround.
This bug seems only to happen for AAC encoding. Switch over to MP3. This was problematic for me because I couldn't get "CD Quality, MP3" to appear in the dropdown list under Edit -> Preferences -> Music -> Preferred Format. You need to have Ubuntu packages BOTH liblame0 and gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse installed. Then MP3 will appear in the "Preferred Format" dropdown for Rhythmbox and it will transcode to MP3 instead of AAC. -- rhythmbox adding songs to ipod no sound https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190818 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs