Crossfade seems to solve the issue. If you don't want to use crossfade (due to how toggle pause/play behaves, or for other reasons), you can try the following workaround. It works for me.
1. Extract `rhythmboxfix.plugin` and `rhythmboxfix.py` from the attached archive into `~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins/`.
2. Restart RhythmBox and enable the `RhythmBox Fix` plugin.
Still facing issue in Ubuntu 13.10; RB 2.99.1
Crossfade seems to solve the issue. If you don't want to use crossfade (due to how toggle pause/play behaves, or for other reasons), you can try the following workaround. It works for me.
1. Extract `rhythmboxfix. plugin` and `rhythmboxfix.py` from the attached archive into `~/.local/ share/rhythmbox /plugins/ `.
2. Restart RhythmBox and enable the `RhythmBox Fix` plugin.