Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee will not play MP3s

[Peter Anderson <peter anderson internode on net>]

Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> I assume you mean Ubuntu 6.06.1 (Dapper Drake). There was not an
> official release of Ubuntu at 6.01. This is relevant because if you
> are using Banshee, pre-dapper the repository has an old version that
> using gstreamer 0.8 and not 0.10. Banshee and Rhythmbox (and totem)
> use gstreamer in the back to play audio files. XMMS and (I think)
> GQmpeg use something else so this would seem to indicate that the
> issue is with gstreamer since the problems intersect in its domain. Is
> it possible that you have fluendo installed for 0.8 instead of 0.10.
> If I were you, I'd double check by running a search in synaptic for
> gstreamer and see what it has to say about the wide variety of plugins
> available.
>
> I thought it was the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg plugin that played MP3s, but
> I also have fluendo-mp3 and fluendo-mpegdemux installed. I don't know
> enough to know how to check which ones Banshee is using. I do know
> that it is working on Dapper for me so there is hope. :-)
Josiah,

Thanks for the reply.  First off, it is 6.06.1 (must have been a 
'seniors moment').

I have been into Synaptic just before this reply and checked; I have all 
the gstreamer0.10 modules except the documentation files installed 
(including the ones you mentioned).  I agree, it probably is a gstreamer 
problem but I don't have the Linux experience to know how to resolve it.

Regards,
Peter
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