Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Spider element

[Spundun Bhatt <spundun ISI EDU>]

Title:

I had the exact same problem but with mp3 files. To make matters worse
I noticed that I already had spider element installed among the core
gst plugins.  I had to look through the code to realize that It throws
that error when It can not find an mp3 decoder gst plugin. (giving
error about spider element seems to be a misnomer left after some code
cleanup/downsizing). 
Its in the monkey media play tmp file. (or something close to that dont
remeber exactly).
Spundun
btw I was using latest arch at that time.
Luca Ferretti wrote:
> A small quote from http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=5066
>
> <quote>
> Fedora has also bundled something called Rhythmbox version 0.5.3 to play
> radio station music and other types (vorbis). I fired it up and tried to
> connect to Digitally Imported (Netherlands) but it popped up an error
> 'failed to create spider element, check your installation'. So I checked
> the properties for that stream, and they were listed as
> http://213.73.255.244:8000/, I copied and pasted that address into
> Mozilla and it showed me a U ShoutCast D.N.A.S Status page saying the
> stream was up and with 43 of 300 users listening, so why couldn't I hear
> anything. It quickly dawned on me that once again I needed a plug-in to
> listen to these online radio installations, the help files included with
> Rhythmbox stated that the player plays MP3, FLAC or OGG/Vorbis files,
> but didn't mention where I could add the ability to play MP3 streams. It
> would be useful if Rhythmbox included a message like the one in XMMS
> detailing that this MP3 support is not included, rather than having
> users trying to figure out what a 'spider element' is.
> </quote>
>
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