GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 705468
[BPM] Crash on start, even after preference reset
Last modified: 2014-03-12 00:12:35 UTC
I recently install Linux Mint 15 - Cinnamon x64. Upon importing my music from a mounted volume, banshee crashed. Deleting the config file and again reimporting, it now crashes after about five seconds. I'm attaching the kill process log as well as the actual output of the program when I run it with `banshee -debug`. Let me know if you need more information. I was previously using the same mount point and music files on Debian (Testing) with Banshee with no issues.
Created attachment 250823 [details] Both logs together.
Thank you for your bug report. It looks like the crash is caused by the soundtouch library, which used to do the "beat per minute" detection. Could you try to disable this feature ? Go to Edit > Preferences, in the Sources tab, make sure the Music source is selected, and uncheck the "Automatically detect BPM for all songs" box. You might also have to disable the "BPM Detection" extension (in the Extensions tab). I think this extension might be disabled by default on Debian, because of this bug.
It worked on Debian suprisingly. I've disabled both the BPM detection option and the addon and it appears to be working now. Thanks.
I think Debian bundles a packager-patch to disable BPM. IMHO we should make BPM be off by default, moving forward. I wanted to use the "anonymous usage data" feature to find out the percentage of people using this feature, to make a more informed decision, but I haven't had time to look into it yet.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 722551 ***