GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 770620
Rhythmbox doesn't import mp3 on fresh installation of FC24
Last modified: 2018-05-24 19:02:40 UTC
I am aware that this issue strictly might not fall within rhythmbox ( NOTGNOME ). But, I still wanted to report it here to see, if something can be done on this issue. ( as I repeatedly see users complaining rhythmbox doesn't work in my distro ). This issue was reported by more users in Fedora's package manager against rhythmbox package. 1. I installed FC24, and I was not able to import mp3 files into rhythmbox. While trying import, rhythmbox said "Examining files 8 of 8" and bailed out. 2. I checked the system for gstreamer plugin installation. [dev@dhcppc3 ~]$ dnf list installed | grep -i gstre PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin.x86_64 1.1.3-2.fc24 @updates gstreamer1.x86_64 1.8.3-1.fc24 @updates gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free.x86_64 1.8.3-1.fc24 @updates gstreamer1-plugins-base.x86_64 1.8.3-1.fc24 @updates gstreamer1-plugins-good.x86_64 1.8.3-1.fc24 @updates Now, a normal user would be wondering what next ? To address this, is it possible for rhythmbox to pop up a message dialog saying that "Additional plugins need to be installed", and point to a Rhythmbox wiki FAQ link ? This would prevent users from opening rhythmbox bugs for the "not working in my distro".
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-libs/html/gst-plugins-base-libs-gstpbutilsinstallplugins.html explains how this is supposed to work. It worked last time I tried it. Maybe fedora broke it.
gstreamer broke it. thanks gstreamer!
Corresponding gstreamer bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770643 ( thanks ). The fix will be available in gst-plugins-base 1.8.4
As part of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772657, I tried installing the ALAC plugin using the gstreamer installer ( though I can manually install it ), without success. I have built and installed "libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0" ( with the patch for bug 770643 ), and still the plugin installer couldn't find the correct package ( gstreamer1.0-libav ). I get https://bug772996.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=337884. Rhythmbox log: -------------- Rhythmbox-Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|lt-rhythmbox|Apple Lossless Audio (ALAC) encoder|encoder-audio/x-alac ** Message: PackageKit: xid = 37748743 ** Message: PackageKit: desktop_id = (null) ** Message: PackageKit: Codec nice name: Apple Lossless Audio (ALAC) encoder ** Message: PackageKit: structure: gstreamer1(encoder-audio/x-alac)()(64bit) Rhythmbox-Message: Missing plugins installed. Updating plugin registry ...
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