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arrosoir.bleu

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[SOLVED] Quodlibet

Hi,
I've just installed Arch recently, LXQt flavour, on a laptop, alongside other distributions, such as Arch Linux XFCE flavour.
Arch Linux XFCE: no issue at all when starting and using Quodlibet music player,
But with Arch Linux LXQt, Quodlibet always returns, after configuring the music library/folder.

launching by icon of it: Playback open error on device 'default', no such file or folder
launching by terminal:
Binding 'XF86AudioRandomPlay' failed!
0:00:00.665173643  5960 0x5ae861b53660 ERROR  playbin gstplaybin2.c:5554:activate_group:<playbin0> failed to activate sinks

I failed solving that tricky -- well seems to me tricky !--  issue by myself.
Any hints, insights, please.

Last edited by arrosoir.bleu (2024-03-27 13:22:06)

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] Quodlibet

I've just installed Arch recently, LXQt flavour, on a laptop, alongside other distributions, such as Arch Linux XFCE flavour.

Could you elaborate on this please? Arch does not have 'flavours', and Arch-based distributions are not supported here (as made clear during the registration process). I suspect you are referring to archinstall profiles, however there is no need to install each DE to a separate Arch Linux install, they will happily co-exist in the same install. If my assumption is correct, then it's possible you have discovered a bug in the LXQt profile -- please post the archinstall.log from each install (use a pastebin).

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arrosoir.bleu

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Re: [SOLVED] Quodlibet

Some precision's to WorMzy:
I've installed 2 RAW and full Arch distributions by using Guidance, such as: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/installation_guide.
Never used anything else which is not tagged "archlinux.org"
the first one onto one of the partitions and completed by XFCE
the second one onto ANOTHER partition, and completed by LXQt
... that's what I called .... flavours.
(mixing both LXQt and XFCE together in the same install .... I invite you trying and lemme know what you think about that experience!)
But back to the ongoing topic... So I do not know what archinstall profiles are, and do not know how and where to pick up archinstall.log, if exist.
Sorry

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Quodlibet

You probably want to install pulseaudio or pipewire-pulse for an audio server implementation and as far as a gstreamer playback pipeline goes make sure gst-plugins-{good,bad,ugly} are installed.

Maybe post wrapped in code tags --

aplay -lL
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
pactl list cards

how are you starting the relevant graphical session?

Last edited by V1del (2024-03-26 16:15:49)

arrosoir.bleu

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Re: [SOLVED] Quodlibet

Hi V1del,
Installing the two missing gst plugins - {bad and good} while --ugly was already there (why?? No crystal ball to explain this), solved my problem. Thank you so much.
One more question though: when "pacman -Qi quodlibet", gst-plugins-* are mentioned as OPTIONAL DEPENDENCIES... really?
I like to understand what I'm doing, and even though I'm French....applying the solution purely as a cooking recipe leaves me a little frustrated.
Thank you so much anyway.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Quodlibet

gst plugins contain support for actual codecs and the like. In this particular case good contains the plugin for pulseaudio support at the very least as well as codecs for the most common open/free audio formats (ogg, opus, flac, mp3...) in practice it makes very little sense to not have the good plugins minimally, but yes from a "application" perspective they are optional since it will generally run.

See also https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/docum … language=c

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Last edited by V1del (2024-03-28 10:12:13)