Description of problem: I had an mp3 song in my home dir. Double clicked it. Although no mp3 player turned up it started playing. Note, this is not the "preview" because it continued after I moved away the mouse pointer. Now I couldn't stop the song. I changed to "view as music", clicking stop did nothing. It continued to play. I exited Nautilus. It continued to play. I logged out. It continued to play. In desperation I selected "shut down computer". It continued to play while processes were terminated, then at last the song stopped and the computer turned off. And all I expected when double clicking the mp3 was too see XMMS or some other mp3 player start and play my song. Now some "magic" background playing occured. :) My suggestion: Turn of mp3 previews if it's possible and make XMMS start by default when you double click an mp3 in Nautilus. Isn't that what you'd expect? The preview works sometimes (although the playback is skipping) but the above scenario has happened more than once. Hard to reproduce to a 100% though. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): The one in Limbo How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Double click an mp3 song in Nautilus
Hmm, not good. ;-)
cf. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89143
This is a problem in both Gnome 1.4.x and Gnome 2.x. This can be a serious problem because it will always run mpg123 in the background, with no apparent way of stopping it. Please remove mpg123 as a file association for MP3. It causes far too much harm and little good. XMMS or one of the other media players can play it instead. Although... We probably shouldn't be making assumptions that XMMS is installed. Perhaps a little script like Bero's "htmlview" should be written. It would be called "soundplay", and it would be used as a generic sound media players, running whichever player is currently installed. It could also potentially autodetect if esd or arts is currently in use, choosing the appropriate player. Good idea? Bad idea?
mpg123 is no longer in gnome-vfs.keys; if I double-click an mp3 file I get xmms this is gnome-mime-data 2.0.0-7
With gnome-mime-data-2.0.0-8, clicking on an mp3 file launches xmms. But we have removed decoding from the default release, so we need a dialog which tells the user what is going on and that we don't have decoders in the release anymore.
Please make sure that such a text gets processed by the translation teams before release.
That would break if people install an external mp3 plugin for xmms though.
I think we should punt this from the current release, but to fix I would say xmms should just have a nice message when it sees an mp3. That way we kill two birds with one stone and also handle people who aren't expecting xmms to have mp3 disabled.
Can that nice message have a link to a page with a complete explanation and links to more information? If so, I would be willing to help in organizing that information.
Hi Folks, nice that you planed to insert a plug-in to show a message. I needed to look in the xmms.spec to sort out the missing support for MP3. There I also found the bug why I never show this warning: install -m 755 libzz_mp3.so %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/xmms/Input The correct line is: install -m 755 libzz_mp3.so %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/xmms/Input Cheers, J"org
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