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Mr Tim

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 4

Unable to get iPod working in Rhythmbox

Hello all

I installed Arch on my netbook after a friend quite strongly attempted to convert me from Ubuntu. I quite like it so far, but I'm having a few problems, cheif of which is currently:

I cannot get my iPod (or indeed any mp3s) to play under Rhythmbox. I am getting the red "Will not play" symbol, and it is skipping tracks until it eventually reaches any random one and freezes. I have a number of codecs installed including:

codecs 20071007-1
gstreamer0.10 0.10.22-1
gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.10-1
gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.10-1
gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.22-1
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.22-1
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.6-1
gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.14-1
gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.14-1
gstreamer0.10-python 0.10.13-2
gstreamer0.10-ugly 0.10.10-1
gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins 0.10.10-1

essentially I've tried everything that I've found on the Internet and it still isn't working.
Thanks in advance for any help.

tjwoosta

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Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 453

Re: Unable to get iPod working in Rhythmbox

not sure if its much help but did you check out the arch wiki yet?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rhythmbox

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPod

Last edited by tjwoosta (2009-04-04 04:37:16)

Mr Tim

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 4

Re: Unable to get iPod working in Rhythmbox

Looking more deeply I've discovered that this isn't a problem with MP3s at all, even ogg files wont play. The output when I run rythmbox from the command line is as follows:

(rhythmbox:5710): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstjp2k.so': libjasper.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".

(rhythmbox:5709): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to start mDNS browsing: MDNS service is not running

(<unknown>:5724): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstjp2k.so': libjasper.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".

Unfotunately, nothing in the rhythmbox page on the wiki is helpful.

Nicolae

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Registered: 2008-12-08

Posts: 9

Re: Unable to get iPod working in Rhythmbox

According to pacman, libjasper.so.1 is owned by jasper, which is related to JPEG-2000 encoding, apparently. I doubt it's causing your issues, but try pacman -S jasper to see what happens.

Mr Tim

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 4

Re: Unable to get iPod working in Rhythmbox

According to pacman, libjasper.so.1 is owned by jasper, which is related to JPEG-2000 encoding, apparently. I doubt it's causing your issues, but try pacman -S jasper to see what happens.

I installed jasper and that error has ceased appearing, that however has not fixed the actual problem, unfortunately. So it still isn't working. Thanks for your efforts.

ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: Unable to get iPod working in Rhythmbox

Have you tried it with Totem? It uses gstreamer backend as well I believe.

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Mr Tim

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Registered: 2009-04-04

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Re: Unable to get iPod working in Rhythmbox

I tried it with Totem and it worked. So I uninstalled rhythmbox, did a full system update 'pacman -Syu' and installed rhythmbox again and it is working (to a degree). Unfortunately my sound isn't working, I'm not sure how long it hasn't been working for, but I don't think it is as a result of the update. And after the update my background disappeared (I realised that I should mention that I am using openbox).
As always with these kinds of things, you fix one error, and many more appear. Thank you to all who helped, if further solutions become available I will be very grateful.

Last edited by Mr Tim (2009-04-05 07:00:27)

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: Unable to get iPod working in Rhythmbox

Hmm.. I've been VERY fortunate with Arch, just installed it last month on a desktop and a laptop, no real issues to mention except a number of 'gotchas' concerning moving from Ubuntu (mainly stuff that is pre-installed on their Gnome but isn't part of Arch's default Gnome).

Concerning sound problems, I guess the ALSA section on the wiki would be your best bet. Sorry, no idea at all about OpenBox.

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