[solved] KDE apps do no play mp3

Janerio · 2013-06-02 14:35:06

Hello arch-community,

I'm a new user who decided to run kde on top of archlinux incl. btrfs root system.
So far everything works perfectly, BUT amarok & juk do not play mp3 audio files (maybe others too).
My backend is phonon on gstreamer and it's the only backend installed. I can listen to youtube audio
and the test sound does also work (also system sounds etc).

Could you pls. advise me how to find a solution?

Second issue I faced: kmix play stream does not show anything (it should, does't it?).

Thanks

Last edited by Janerio (2013-06-03 10:28:24)

lucke · 2013-06-02 14:41:33

Do you have gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins installed?

linux411 · 2013-06-02 14:53:47

Make sure you have the required packages installed to play the file format. From a console as root, run 'pacman -Qs gstreamer0.10-bad gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-good gstreamer0.10-good-plugins gstreamer0.10-ugly gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins'

If any of these packages are not install ( especially "the good, the bad and the ugly" ) it will not play mp3's as well as other file formats. To install a missing package, from console, run 'pacman -S gstreamer0.10-ugly' if the gstreamer0.10-ugly package isn't installed yet.

pacman -S gstreamer0.10-bad gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-good gstreamer0.10-good-plugins gstreamer0.10-ugly gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins

will reinstall and update any already installed package and install any that are missing.

Last edited by linux411 (2013-06-02 14:56:40)

Janerio · 2013-06-02 14:59:35

thanks lucke & linux411.

Perfect, it works now. "gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins" did the trick but I anyway installed all the other mentioned packages.
Main issue is therefore fixed. Thanks a lot.

I got following while installing. Does this is an issue?
(16/18) Installiere gstreamer0.10-good-plugins [#####################################] 100%

(gconftool-2:1548): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
/usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: No protocol specified
Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.

Is there a way to see (also adjust volume) when Firefox plays music in kmix?

Last edited by Janerio (2013-06-02 15:02:56)

lucke · 2013-06-02 15:02:53

For per-app volume controls, you need to have pulseaudio installed. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pulseaudio

Janerio · 2013-06-02 15:05:18

lucke wrote:

For per-app volume controls, you need to have pulseaudio installed. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pulseaudio

thanks, is pulseaudio a replacement of phonon on gstreamer or an addition? Can it also be controlled my kmix?

lucke · 2013-06-02 16:48:34

(With pulseaudio installed) Phonon uses gstreamer which uses pulseaudio which uses alsa.

Janerio · 2013-06-03 10:28:06

lucke wrote:

(With pulseaudio installed) Phonon uses gstreamer which uses pulseaudio which uses alsa.

thanks

dureyes · 2014-03-23 18:07:27

Thank you, this wiki solved my problem with Juk not playing mp3 files.

jasonwryan · 2014-03-23 20:08:06

Please dont' necrobump, especially with an empty post: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

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