How to get one song to repeat in Rhythmbox?
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.
homepage
"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
Linked Question:
- How do I install third-party rhythmbox plugins?
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. :)
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.