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chimerical_brio

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Registered: 2008-07-20

Posts: 38

Rhythmbox cannot play any music [SOLVED]

My music player of choice on Linux is Rhythmbox, and, having migrated to Arch from Ubuntu, I know that all of my music should be playable under Rhythmbox. Which obviously doesn't equate into my music actually playing in Rhythmbox. I have all of the gstreamer packages installed (done with "pacman -Sy codecs `pacman -Ss gstreamer | grep -e '^extra/gstreamer0.10' | awk '{print $1}'`"), but .m4a files can't be imported ('The GStreamer plugins to decode "MP3" files cannot be found'), and when I try to play .mp3 songs that have been imported, I'm told, "Couldn't stop playback; unkown playback error." Does anyone know how to get this working?

Last edited by chimerical_brio (2008-08-05 14:20:33)

z0idberg

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Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 20

Re: Rhythmbox cannot play any music [SOLVED]

I think the specific package you need for mp3 playback is gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins, which pulls in a bunch of lovely dependencies to give you aural satisfaction. Now, I suppose you get other music formats to play without any encountering unexpected resistance?

chimerical_brio

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Registered: 2008-07-20

Posts: 38

Re: Rhythmbox cannot play any music [SOLVED]

Well, I started my computer this morning, reinstalled gstreamer-0.10-ugly-plugins, and lo and behold, it works. Thanks!