Re: No music playback
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:41:46PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
>
> This is strange: I can play video files with sound, I can play flash video with
> sound, but when I try to play a music file (mp3) in either Rhythmbox or Exaile
> the progress bar does not move and the file will not play.
>
> I don't know if this is related, but I have two volume icons in my panel, the
> one that I added myself and now one in the notification area. They appear the
> same, but the icon in my panel has the usual config options, whereas the icon
> in the notification area has a minimal menu with prefs that look like the ones
> for Pulseaudio.
>
> System is Testing/Unstable.
>
> --
> J
I don't think Debian ships with mp3 playback out of the box. I don't know
the exact package that handles it. Amarok pulls everything it needs..
$ aptitude search ~dmp3 | grep ^i
i A libflac8 - Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtime C libr
i A libmad0 - MPEG audio decoder library
i A libmp3lame0 - LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
i A libmpcdec3 - Musepack (MPC) format library
i A libmtp7 - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library
i A libmusicbrainz4c2a - Second generation incarnation of the CD In
i A libnjb5 - Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox library
i A libopenal1 - Software implementation of the OpenAL API
i A libsdl-mixer1.2 - mixer library for Simple DirectMedia Layer
i A libshout3 - MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming library
i A libsmpeg0 - SDL MPEG Player Library - shared libraries
i A libtag1c2a - TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library
i A libtagc0 - TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library (C bindings
i A libtunepimp5 - MusicBrainz tagging library
i A libtwolame0 - MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding library
i A libvlc0 - multimedia player and streamer library
i A libxine1 - the xine video/media player library, meta-
i A libxine1-plugins - the xine video/media player library, meta
i A python-mutagen - audio metadata editing library
i A rhythmbox - music player and organizer for GNOME
i A serpentine - An application for creating audio CDs
i vlc - multimedia player and streamer
i A vlc-nox - multimedia player and streamer (without X
Everything works fine here. I assume one of the above will take care of
everything.
--
Daryl Styrk
Naples FL, USA
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