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Gwyniveth

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Registered: 2008-03-01

Posts: 9

Covergloobus - no song playing **SOLVED**

Hi all

I have recently stumbled across Covergloobus and installed the latest version from the AUR. The problem I am having is that no matter what player I try ( have tried MPD <Sonata>, vlc, and now Banshee) Covergloobus does not appear to see my player as playing a song. Cover art stays blank, and when I ask it to show lyrics, it says "no song playing".  I have searched the net unsuccessfully for what I am doing wrong and have found nothing. It doesn't seem all that complicated, but ya well, for me it is I have run covergloobus --debug and gotten no errors, I have installed gloobus-preview, and well, I am at a loss. I would really love to get this to work with Banshee. Any suggestions ?

Thanks in advance

Last edited by Gwyniveth (2011-01-14 23:10:12)

Larsson

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2010-03-22

Posts: 156

Re: Covergloobus - no song playing **SOLVED**

For mpd configuration to work correctly you also need to set the correct path to you music library (as configured in mpd).

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Gwyniveth

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Registered: 2008-03-01

Posts: 9

Re: Covergloobus - no song playing **SOLVED**

I did that already too.. set it in banshee as well, still no luck

Gwyniveth

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Registered: 2008-03-01

Posts: 9

Re: Covergloobus - no song playing **SOLVED**

Problem solved :

Becasue I am not running a desktop environment (using openbox) dbus was not starting for Banshee.
Added this to my ~/.xinitrc file before my openbox session :

# D-Bus
 if which dbus-launch >/dev/null && test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
        eval "$(dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session)"
 fi

and Voila ! A beautiful, working covergloobus I am still really new at using linux so it takes me a while to figure this stuff out : )