Re: No music playback
Daryl Styrk wrote:
> 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.
I'm pretty sure I've got everything I need:
joehill@node1:~$ aptitude search ~dmp3 | grep ^i
i audacity - A fast, cross-platform audio editor
i A exfalso - audio tag editor for GTK+
i gpodder - A free podcast aggregator written in PyGTK
i gstreamer0.10-lame - GStreamer lame plugin
i A lame - LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
i A libflac++6 - Free Lossless Audio Codec - C++ runtime li
i libflac-dev - Free Lossless Audio Codec - C development
i libflac8 - Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtime C libr
i A libmad0 - MPEG audio decoder library
i libmp3lame-dev - LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
i A libmp3lame0 - LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
i libmpcdec3 - Musepack (MPC) format library
i A libmpeg3-1 - MPEG streams decoding library
i libmpg123-0 - MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio decoder -- runtime
i libmtp7 - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library
i A libmusicbrainz4c2a - Second generation incarnation of the CD In
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 libsox-fmt-mp3 - SoX MP3 format library
i libtag1-vanilla - TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library (Vanilla fl
i A libtag1c2a - TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library
i A libtagc0 - TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library (C bindings
i A libtwolame0 - MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding library
i libvlc2 - multimedia player and streamer library
i A libvlccore0 - base library for VLC and its modules
i A libxine1 - the xine video/media player library, meta-
i libxine1-plugins - the xine video/media player library, meta
i mencoder - MPlayer's Movie Encoder
i mp3gain - Lossless mp3 normalizer with statistical a
i mpg123 - MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio player
i python-mutagen - audio metadata editing library
i A python-pymtp - Pythonic binding to LibMTP to interact wit
i quodlibet - audio library manager and player for GTK+
i rhythmbox - music player and organizer for GNOME
i A serpentine - An application for creating audio CDs
i A sound-juicer - GNOME 2 CD Ripper
i soundconverter - GNOME application to convert audio files i
i sox - Swiss army knife of sound processing
i A twolame - MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoder (command line f
i vlc - multimedia player and streamer
i A vlc-data - Common data for VLC
i A vlc-nox - multimedia player and streamer (without X
I had mp3 playback before (perhaps I should have mentioned that...)
--
J
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