GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 604949
Rhythmbox request txt/html plugin not found usng Last.fm (forwarded from LP)
Last modified: 2018-05-24 14:54:07 UTC
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/441444 Essentially, the problem is that the files being streamed are no longer available, last.fm serves a 404 page, which Rhythmbox tries to play as a media file, leading to the rather obtuse error message. In an ideal world, this would be handled gracefully.
What version of rhythmbox are you using?
I'm on 0.12.5. I'm not sure, but I think it's happened on previous versions too.
This sort of problem should have been fixed by some changes in 0.12.3.. output from 'rhythmbox -d' illustrating the problem would probably help.
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!
Created attachment 153470 [details] Gzipped log of rhythmbox -d output
The output is of starting RB, moving to the last.fm section, choosing "Personal Radio", playing the first few seconds of a song, then pausing and trying to play again, which replicates the bug.
*** Bug 609610 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hello, With RB 0.12.8, Last.fm Personal radio works but you can reproduce this bug: 1. Go to Library > Radio 2. Double clic on CBC Radio The audio stream of this radio has moved and a request to http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr1-toronto.m3u returns an HTTP 404 response with a web page (text/html) to explain the page was not found. Rhythmbox should detect the 404 response and not try to download a plugin for text/html.
I can still reproduce this bug in 0.13.1: 1. Go to Library > Last.fm. 2. Click on Personal Radio. 3. Click Play. 4. Click >>| to go to the 2nd track in the playlist. 5. Double click the 1st song in the playlist. Result: I get a dialog saying: "Search for suitable plugin? The required software to play this file is not installed. You need to install suitable plugins to play media files. Do you want to search for a plugin that supports the selected file? The search will also include software which is not officially supported." Expected result: Previous tracks should be unselectable if they are unplayable. Rather than the confusing error message, either a better error message should be displayed or it should automatically skip forward until it finds a track it can play. I think this is the same error message I used to see when pausing and then resuming a track, but in 0.13.1 I now get a different unhelpful error message. But I think that's covered in bug 576538.
I have this problem too with Rhythmbox 0.12.8 with Ubuntu 10.04. 1) Open Rhythmbox 2) Click personal Radio 3) Click Stop 4)Click Play Suspend/Hibernate also causes this on resume.
Still seeing this (lastFM, 404 or other HTML error message like too-old playlist after suspend/resume). Perhaps somebody could change the state form "UNCONFIRMED" to something more sensible? rhythmbox-2.90.1-11.git20110502.fc15.i686
Encountered this same bug today after about 30 minutes of listening to a particular station. OS: Debian 6.0 - stable rhythmbox version: 0.12.8-3 (plugin package containing lastfm is same version)
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