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karsten

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

can you help me get quodlibet to work??

hi, i've tried getting quodlibet to work boh under arch and suse, and never can.  it would be nice, because amarok is a pile of crap, and i don't want to install and kde stuff on my gnome setup.  here's the error i get:

"Unable to play song
GStreamer was unable to load the selected song.
The stream is in the wrong format."

this pops up after playing just one song.  i have to re-start the player to make it work again.  you can see how annoying that is..

here's the output of pacman -Qi | grep gst:
# pacman -Qi | grep gst
gst-plugins 0.8.11-2
gstreamer 0.8.12-1
gstreamer0.10 0.10.9-1
gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.8-1
gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.8-1
gstreamer0.10-cairo 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-cdio 0.10.3-3
gstreamer0.10-cdparanoia 0.10.8-1
gstreamer0.10-esd 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-gconf 0.10.3-4
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs 0.10.8-1
gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-libvisual 0.10.8-1
gstreamer0.10-mad 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-ogg 0.10.8-1
gstreamer0.10-python 0.10.4-1
gstreamer0.10-sdl 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-ugly 0.10.3-1
gstreamer0.10-vorbis 0.10.8-1

i'm using pcm output on my onboard nvidia soundcard, using snd-intel8x0.  ~/.asoundrc looks like this to make digital the default:

cat /home/xxxx/.asoundrc
pcm.!default {
        type hw
        card 0
        device 2
        }

        ctl.!default {
        type hw
        card 0
        device 2
        }

gstreamer configuration in gnome is set to use ESD output.  system sounds play OK.  what is going wrong?  thanks for any help..

detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: can you help me get quodlibet to work??

you gstreamer plugins seem to be ok, altough a try to install all with "pacman -S gstreamer0.10-plugins" wouldnt hurt.
and ive never needed any asoundrc since arch. this alsa version supports mixing out of box, imo u shouldnt need that file :>

elasticdog

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From: Washington, USA

Registered: 2005-05-02

Posts: 995

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Re: can you help me get quodlibet to work??

Try running <code>quodlibet</code> from the command line and see which formats it says it will support.  A long time ago, one of the upgrades made it so mine wouldn't recognize any format anymore, despite having all the gst plugins installed properly.  I eventually just gave up on Quod Libet, even though I wanted it badly!

karsten

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

Re: can you help me get quodlibet to work??

hi thanks for the help.. i did the metapackage install and also reinstaleld quodlibet, and now it gives an error on the commandline which might help,

$ quodlibet
Supported formats: flac, mp3, oggvorbis, wav
Loaded song library.
Checking /data/Music
Opening audio device.
ERROR (0xe709c0 - 0:00:19.102552000)        audioresample( 3865) resample_ref.c(118):resample_scale_ref: buffer_queue_pull returned NULL"

anyone more clever than me know what that means?

p..s this is on arch64 so maybe some of the sampling math is getting screwed up? i'm not sure.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: can you help me get quodlibet to work??

If you have trouble with FLAC then install pyflac, if it's m4a or other such filetypes giving you trouble then install python-ctypes.

karsten

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

Re: can you help me get quodlibet to work??

it's oggs.. i'll try mp3 or something and see if that's causing it

edit- flac does the same thing, installed pyflac, same thing, ran as root and no error, but no sound output either.  hm

If you have trouble with FLAC then install pyflac, if it's m4a or other such filetypes giving you trouble then install python-ctypes.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: can you help me get quodlibet to work??

It seems to be a gstreamer bug: http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet/ticket/705

Quolibet works fine on my 32 bits system. Are the 64bits packages up-to-date?