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Birds

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[SOLVED] The GNOME "Music" application is absent from the list of apps

Hi!

I wanted to associate .mp3 files with the GNOME Music application, but it's absent from the list of available apps.

The exact steps I tried:

1. Open the GNOME Files application.
2. Navigate to ~/Music.
3. Double-click on song.mp3. "Could not Display "song.mp3"" window pops up.
4. Click on "Select App". "Select Application" window opens.
5. Click on "View All Apps". A list of applications is shown, but there's no "Music" in it.

How can I fix that? The application, is, of course, installed.

Thanks!

Last edited by Birds (2024-07-10 15:54:09)

skunktrader

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Re: [SOLVED] The GNOME "Music" application is absent from the list of apps

Look in

/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Music.desktop

to see what the application is actually called

Birds

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Re: [SOLVED] The GNOME "Music" application is absent from the list of apps

@skunktrader: I looked, and it's indeed called "Music".

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] The GNOME "Music" application is absent from the list of apps

No it's not: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/gnome-music/

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Birds

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Re: [SOLVED] The GNOME "Music" application is absent from the list of apps

@seth: "gnome-music" is absent from the list either...

Birds

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Re: [SOLVED] The GNOME "Music" application is absent from the list of apps

Trying to solve the problem I found this forum thread. Someone says there:

GNOME Music isn’t a file player. It knows your local music collection (in ~/Music) and you can select the albums, tracks or playlists to play in the app itself. Not from your file manager.

So perhaps there's nothing that can be done.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] The GNOME "Music" application is absent from the list of apps

I've no idea about gnome-music, can you "gnome-music /path/to/thunderstruck.mp3"?

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Birds

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Re: [SOLVED] The GNOME "Music" application is absent from the list of apps

I tried

gnome-music ~/Music/song.mp3

and got this:

(org.gnome.Music:2801): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 14:07:12.213: This application can not open files.

(org.gnome.Music:2801): Grilo-WARNING **: 14:07:12.238: [dleyna] ../grilo-plugins/src/dleyna/grl-dleyna-servers-manager.c:138: Unable to fetch the list of available servers: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] The GNOME "Music" application is absent from the list of apps

there's nothing that can be done.

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] The GNOME "Music" application is absent from the list of apps

FWIW: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-music/-/issues/323 -- very intentional design decision.