Description of problem: I keep getting popup dialogs asking for plugins after opening rhythmbox even before playing any songs. After dismissing the dialog with the "Close" button, another one pops up. This happens a few times in a row asking for different plugins. Eventually it stops. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhythmbox-0.12.0.92-1.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open rhythmbox 2. Enable Edit->Preferences->Watch my library for new files (you may have to close/reopen rhythmbox after setting this preference) 3. Either let it sit there, or play a file 4. If you don't play anything, the dialog pops without any filename/song name mentioned. 5. If you play a song, the dialog pops with that filename/song name, even though that song is actually playing, proving that it doesn't need any additional plugins to play it. Actual results: [Song Name] An additional plugin is required to play this content The following plugin is required: Module Music Format (MOD) decoder Do you want to search for this now? After clicking "Close" on the popup dialog, a new dialog appears, but this time for this plugin: Sipro/ACELP.NET Voice decoder then again for: Amiga IFF / SVX8 / SV16 decoder then: SoundBlaster VOC decoder Expected results: The request for media plugins should only happen when the file is attempted to be played, not when it is discovered/added to the library, and certainly not every single time I open rhythmbox and decline to search for the required plugin. No dialog popup should happen for the file that is currently playing correctly... Additional info: These are the gstreamer packages I have installed: gstreamer-0.10.22-3.fc11.x86_64 gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.7-1.fc11.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.22-2.fc11.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-farsight-0.12.10-2.fc11.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux-0.10.15-6.fc11.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.14-2.fc11.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-schroedinger-1.0.6-1.fc11.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.fc11.x86_64 gstreamer-python-0.10.14-2.fc11.x86_64 gstreamer-tools-0.10.22-3.fc11.x86_64
I just got another one for: application/postscript My music library does contain extra files that I don't necessarily expect Rhythmbox to play or touch. I'd prefer if these were ignored perhaps after a single one-time prompt for each file. In other words, once I've declined a plugin search or if a plugin search fails for a particular file, it should remember that and not ask me again for that file. Even better would be to have two buttons: [Ignore this file] [Ignore all files of this type]
(In reply to comment #1) > I just got another one for: > > application/postscript I've fixed the check for this filetype upstream, it's now ignored. The original problem is a bit harder. When asking for a plugin, we blacklist the requested type if a decoder wasn't installed. The blacklist is only kept per-run, so as to avoid files being ignored if a plugin for the type was installed in the meanwhile. We should be a bit more clever, and only show the popup when _playing_ the track, and show it in the unhandled/errors source when checking for metadata.
I'll file a new bug upstream about that. Could you please try to make the files that caused those popups available somewhere? Then we could easily check that the UI problems are solved.
Some additional file types that pop up: application/x-lha decoder application/x-java decoder
(In reply to comment #4) > Some additional file types that pop up: > > application/x-lha decoder > application/x-java decoder Added those, still waiting on the other media files.
Instead of adding every single application/* type that xdgmime will identify to the blacklist, we should use a whitelist for application/*. It looks like the only application/* types we accept are: application/x-id3 application/ogg possibly application/x-apetag possibly application/x-3gp
I'm not exactly sure which files caused which popups...
Created attachment 341736 [details] rb-ignore-more-types.patch Jonathan, does that look good to you?
Sure, that looks OK. I implemented a slightly different approach locally for testing, but that'll work just as well. > I'm not exactly sure which files caused which popups... That's one of the problems with the plugin install code at the moment. As far as I can tell, there's no way to pass that information through to the helper app.
Rhythmbox should ignore non audio files, everything without an "audio/*" MIME type. It should also give the option to disable plugin requests. It could import those files marking them as unplayable so it doesn't try to import them everytime it starts. Don't you think?
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