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Neikron

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From: Canada

Registered: 2010-04-01

Posts: 22

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[Half Solved] MPD won't play (after gnome 3 install)

I've tried reinstalling flash, installing the testing version 10.3 and upgrading (no more upgrades), but in chromium it says plugin missing, and firefox shows just a black window.

Anyway, I installed a bunch of gnome 3-related things, but still running Openbox. Using only gnome 3 for gnome applications, and not for a DM. Maybe I installed too many gnome-related things?

Not sure if that has anything to do with this, but mpd is also not working. It loads mpd with the database of music, so it's connecting fine and loading up the daemon, but doesn't actually play any songs.

I was thinking this some pulse audio issue which I've tried to solve, but I'm not sure what I can do.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Flash part solved, MPD pending]

Flash Solution: Logging out wasn't good enough to get it working, but a soft reset seemed to do the trick.

Last edited by Neikron (2011-05-18 19:16:07)

BurntSushi

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From: Massachusetts

Registered: 2009-06-28

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Re: [Half Solved] MPD won't play (after gnome 3 install)

I recently had the same problem, although I don't know if I can attribute it to something gnome-related (even if it happened soon after doing some gnome-related updates).

In either case, I "solved" the problem by first disabling the flash plugin (type 'about:plugins' in the address bar to get a list of plugins that you can disable). Then I used 'shift + escape' to open the "google chrome task manager." I ended the 'Plug in: Shockwave flash' and re-enabled the flash plugin.

Although this seems like a band-aide, the issue hasn't resurfaced.

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Neikron

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From: Canada

Registered: 2010-04-01

Posts: 22

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Re: [Half Solved] MPD won't play (after gnome 3 install)

No luck, BurntSushi. I went to the task manager, disabled flash, then disabled the plugin, and re-enabled afterwards. Still gave me the same issue.

mohtasham1983

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Registered: 2008-12-15

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Re: [Half Solved] MPD won't play (after gnome 3 install)

I'm having the same problem with MPD. It shows all my music, but it cannot play them. It happened right after I upgraded to gnome3. Not too sure if gnome 3 was the reason for that though.

Anyone got mpd working under gnome 3?

Neikron

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From: Canada

Registered: 2010-04-01

Posts: 22

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Re: [Half Solved] MPD won't play (after gnome 3 install)

I'm having the same problem with MPD. It shows all my music, but it cannot play them. It happened right after I upgraded to gnome3. Not too sure if gnome 3 was the reason for that though.

Anyone got mpd working under gnome 3?

I haven't solved this completely, but I'm pretty certain it has to do with gnome3 automatically using pulseaudio. I never really got into solving it, but I think I'll check it out now. See if I can set mpd to use pulse audio.

manzdagratiano

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From: New Jersey, USA

Registered: 2010-10-08

Posts: 137

Re: [Half Solved] MPD won't play (after gnome 3 install)

Happened to me and I was setting audio_output to "alsa" in mpd. Set it to "pulseaudio" and see your problems be vanquished.

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