GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 47373
MP3 preview silently fails if mpg123 is not in path
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
The music preview for MP3 files silently fails if mpg123 is not in the path. It should probably not show the music preview icon if no sound will be produced. ------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2001-03-05 09:51:12 ---- I think this is a really bad problem, but we discovered it too late in the 1.0 cycle. We'll have to fix it the next time around. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:06 ------- The original reporter (jwbaker@acm.org) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.
Adding GNOME2 keyword.
Marking up; this /is/ a big problem. I know Jody is poking around in the views code so I'm cc'ing him.
Since this is the same as in Nautilus 1.0 I don't see what makes it "must fix for Gnome 2". There are plenty of things that worked perfectly in Nautilus 1.0 that are now broken, and those are far more urgent. We get very few complains about this problem from the Nautilus users in the field, so I think we have the wrong priority and severity here.
Hrm. I guess one part of my personal priority schema is 'if things don't work, they shouldn't be in there.' I can see where reasonable people would disagree :) especially since it isn't a regression. I'll mark this down to Normal for now but I'd still urge someone (Jody?) to take a look at it.
Actually for GNOME 2.2 I know many of the GStreamer hackers are want to make this functionality depend on GStreamer (which would also give the added benefit of the music view supporting all audio formats GStreamer does (rather a lot actually :). If nothing else that would mean the code for doing this would be rewritten at and bugs like this fixed indirectly through that (hopefully :)
*** Bug 93534 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Nautilus-media will depend on gstreamer, so the need to execute a player vanishes. Closing this bug. (Considering the amount of people in the cc:-fiels, I risk my behind being kicked ;-) )
reopening, nautilus media is only a music view and video thumbnailing program. Audio previewing in the icon view has to be done by nautilus proper and probably requires nautilus to depend on gstreamer.
But doesn't the use of gstreamer make this bug obsolete, because there is no need execute an external program any more, it is done using libs or perhaps out-of-process components.
NO, the icon view preview does not use gstreamer yet. The maintainers didn't want to add a dependency on yet another unstable lib and hence nautilus does not use gstreamer for handling music previewing in the icon view yet, it uses hardcoded programs like ogg and mpg123.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 111511 ***