Bug 75952
| Summary: | Xmms won't play or add any file to a playlist | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Sensei <senseiwa> |
| Component: | xmms | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | mgb, munched, roger, rvokal, wtogami |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-01-17 20:42:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Sensei
2002-10-15 08:18:56 UTC
MP3 file? senseiwa, were you attempting to play MP3 files? If so please close this as NOTABUG because MP3 support was removed from Red Hat 8.0. You can easily install the MP3 plugin for XMMS however with http://www.gurulabs.com/files/xmms-mp3-1.2.7-13.p.i386.rpm Is it possible that someone make this easier to fix or atleast to find? I was using xmms with a the xmms-mpg123 plugin and everything was working fine but when i upgraded using up2date and everything stopped working. Its working now though because of the file above but took a lot of searching. Thanks Sorry i also meant to add that this affected .ogg files too. None would play complaining about incorrect plugin but had worked before with the same plugin. Hm, that error sounds more like audio configuration rather than the MP3 plugin issue. What was the exact error? hmmm, i'm getting the same thing with the new plugin on both mp3 and .ogg files. The error msg is the same as the one you get when trying to play mp3's from xmms in its pre-plugged-in state. i.e. the same as before you get plugin. Can't recreate it. Used to happen when moving from one song in the playlist to another but if you clicked on the play button it would play. Nothing major but a little annoying :) Thanks Dave I second Dave O'Connor's comment. Playing an MP3 is perhaps one of the most common things people do. I experienced the same problem and I ended up (1) going to Red Hat's site (2) finding Bugzilla (3) signing up for a Bugzilla account and (4) running 2 bug queries before I figured out the nature of my bug. I can't believe I spent this much time just trying to figure out how to play MP3s with my new Red Hat distro. Pardon the rant, but <rant> Does Red Hat think that most customers will be this patient? XMMS is open source, after all. Red Hat engineers could have added a few lines of code that would prevent XMMS from failing silently; e.g., a dialog to inform the user "sorry but the MP3 plugin is not installed ... you need to blah blah blah ..." prior to officially removing support for MP3s. It would save thier engineers lots of time dealing with bug reports like this, but more importantly, it would save customers like me time troubleshooting something as basic as an MP3 player. Heck, an engineer spending a week on the problem would probably make Red Hat 6 months of an engineer's salary over the next several years in the income that was not lost to impatient users getting frustrated with things like this and just giving up. I realize Red Hat is not focused on the desktop, but they are leaning progressively in the direction of trying to capture some desktop space. Imagine talking a Windows user into giving Linux a shot. What's one of the first things they're going to do? Try to play their MP3s! </rant> a) this is all documented in the release notes
b) there is a notification plugin; it just had an unfortunate bug
in the 8.0 version, and it's been fixed for roughly 4 to 5 months now.
I understand the legal standpoint but even the plugin you gave still causes the problem sometimes. /me looks around dazedly :) |