Hi,

Rhythmbox' README suggests running gst-launch manually to diagnose a GStreamer
problem, but the following pipeline is erroneous:
    gst-launch-0.8 gnomevfssrc location=/path/to/my/musicfile.ogg ! spider !
volume ! audioscale ! audioconvert ! $(gconftool-2 -g
/system/gstreamer/0.8/default/audiosink)

as Tim Mueller explains in Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/329213:
"This will fail whenever the file in question is an ogg/vorbis audio
file, ie. almost always. The reason is that the vorbis decoder produces
audio buffers in audio/x-raw-float format [*], but audioscale can only
handle audio buffers in audio/x-raw-int format. This results in a
negotiation error (gst_pad_try_set_caps fails etc.).

This negotiation error is the result of an erroneous pipeline and not a
GStreamer bug."

Please update the README file, maybe replacing the test with a playbin invocation.

I checked player/rb-recorder-gst.c which uses audioscale/audioconvert: they seem
to be bound in the correct order.

Bye,