Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] flac audio format support

[Kevin Hunter <hunteke earlham edu>]

At 7:26p -0400 on Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:33:15PM -0400, Kevin Hunter wrote:
>> I've heard this thrust of question get asked more often, both here and
>> offlist.  If Rhythmbox can't play the file, what's the barrier to some
>> simple code that determines what codec they need to install?
> 
> We added that in 0.11.4.
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-libs/html/gst-plugins-base-libs-gstpbutilsinstallplugins.html
> for more information.

Ah! So you did!  Just tested it by uninstalling my -ugly set.  Excellent!

Haha, but oh no!  Just found a bug.  I'll mention it here, then pending
y'all's response ("already solved", "report it properly", etc.) put it
in Launchpad.

The bug is if the necessary module does not get installed.  Perhaps user
decides against installing, lack of internet connection.  Or in my case,
Synaptic was already open, so the default Ubuntu user-friendly interface
failed.  When that program returns to Rhythmbox, and you try to play the
song again (because I'm a dumb user), Rhythmbox locks up.  Not sure what
exactly the correct behavior is.

Kevin

$ rhythmbox --version
GNOME rhythmbox 0.11.5

$ dpkg -l *rhythmbox*
ii  rhythmbox      0.11.5-0ubuntu music player and organizer for GNOME

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release:	8.04
Codename:	hardy