I want one song to repeat. Unfortunately, this is not possible. The only possible solution is to create a playlist with that one song and play it on loop, but this is not convenient. Are there any plugins or tweaks to get this functionality?
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Alternative Toolbar (Rhythmbox Versions 3.0 and later)
Repeat once functionality is inbuilt to this plugin via the play-toolbar popup
As the author I've described this in my blog. In summary, install via my PPA package (PPA instructions below) "rhythmbox-plugin-alternative-toolbar", or following the manual installation instructions at the project homepage.
Repeat One Song (Rhythmbox versions v2.96 - v.2.98)
There is now a useful plugin you can add to Rhythmbox to give you this functionality.
"Repeat one song" feature for Rhythmbox
Adds a toolbar option to repeat the selected track when the toolbar option is clicked. Note - it does not repeat a song from the Play Queue.
to install
You can use the instructions in the link below to add my PPA and install the plugin ("rhythmbox-plugin-repeat-one-song").
Alternatively,
download the .tar.gz file from the homepage (link above), extract and copy the files into the folder ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins/repeat-one-song
Start Rhythmbox, enable the Repeat One Song plugin: Edit --> Plugins
Repeat One Song (Rhythmbox versions v2.99 and later)
For v2.99 and later the "Repeat one" button is replaced by the source "Edit - Repeat Current Song" menu option
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fossfreedom
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8This should not be a plugin.. It should be there by default if rhythmbox wants to call itself a music player. – nedR Feb 03 '14 at 12:26
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I tried both methods of installing the plugin, but the button does not appear in my Rhythmbox (version 3.2.1). Do you have any idea why it does not work? – Stefan Hamcke Jan 01 '16 at 21:28
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1@StefanHamcke - thanks for the prompt - I've reworked this answer to give the latest state of play. – fossfreedom Jan 01 '16 at 22:16
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Holy crap, 2023 and Rhythmbox still hasn't this feature. – SilverSurfer Apr 04 '23 at 18:52
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As of 13.04 still no love on the repeat-one functionality. The plug-in doesn't work for me, and I can't be bothered with making a playlist every time I want to repeat a song, but I did stumble upon this interesting workaround:
In the rythmbox music player, type the exact title of the song you want to repeat in the search field--the goal of this is to come up with a result-set of one. Play the song, toggle the repeat button and voila!
My guess is that a search result has the effect of creating a temporary playlist. Silly that you have to do that but it works very well. :)
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A temporary solution (until developers will add this support) is to create a playlist with the one song. You can then choose repeat all and because there is only one song in the playlist it will repeat this song.
yossile
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I had the same trouble.
But it seemed to be solved after installation of rhythmbox-plugin-complete in my case.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom/rhythmbox-plugins
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-complete
