FS#5321 - rhythmbox does not support MP3 by default

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by pete (drg006) - Thursday, 31 August 2006, 15:40 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 09 December 2006, 22:30 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I noticed that my rhythmbox install stopped playing MP3 files after an upgrade (a long time ago). I was able to fix the problem by installing gstreamer0.10-mad. Perhaps gnome-media (one of rhythmbox's dependencies) used to include gstreamer0.10-mad, but maybe it was removed for patent reasons. Anyway, assuming my installation is not borked and that the dependency is actually missing, either the message in the install script should be changed or the dependency on gstreamer0.10-mad should be re-added to rhythmbox or gnome-media.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Monday, 02 April 2007, 16:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  gstreamer0.10-mad is a dependency nowadays and gnome-media includes profiles for mp3.
Comment by 甘露(Lu Gan) (ganlu) - Sunday, 03 September 2006, 04:20 GMT
Vote it.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 04 September 2006, 10:37 GMT
IIRC there is fluendo plugin for GStreamer which is free from patents (because company that depelops it purchased the license). See http://www.fluendo.com/resources/fluendo_mp3.php for more details.
I wonder why it is not in some of Arch repos yet.
Comment by Frank Oosterhuis (FrankTM) - Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 08:21 GMT
installing rhythmbox... done.
==> Rhythmbox support MP3, OGG and APE by default.


however, it doesn't :P
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 09 December 2006, 22:35 GMT
yep, installing gstreamer0.10-mad fixes the issue.

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