gmusicbrowser ignores wav files

[Yann Salmon]

I am not able to play wav files with gmusicbrowser under XUbuntu 14.04 x64.

Situation A :
1. log into XUbuntu session
2. in Thunar, double-click a wav file

Expected :
gmusicbrowser runs, displays its indicator and music plays.
Observed :
gmusicbrowser runs, displays its indicator but music does not play

Situation B :
1. in Thunar, double-click a mp3 file
2. after some time, in Thunar, double-click a wav file

Expected :
1. gmusicbrowser runs, displays its indicator and plays the mp3 file.
2. gmusicbrowser stops playing the mp3 file and starts playing the wav file

Observed :
1. gmusicbrowser runs, displays its indicator and plays the mp3 file.
2. gmusicbrowser continues playing the mp3 file

Playing wav files with Parole or the mplayer command line works fine. gmusicbrowser behaviour persists after it has been configured tu use mplayer as a backend instead of gstreamer.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gmusicbrowser 1.1.12+ds0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64~ppa1-generic-tuxonice 3.13.11.7
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic-tuxonice x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon Oct 13 12:57:25 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-18 (86 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: gmusicbrowser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Quentin Sculo (squentin)]

gmusicbrowser is a library-based player, wav files typically do not have metadata, so they do not really belong in a library and thus support for wav files was never intended.
I might add some support for wav files in the future, depending on changes that would make this easy, but it's not really planned.

If you want to add wav files to your library, I recommend converting them to flac.
If you just want to play some random file on your system, I'm afraid you'll have to use another player. There is a lot of odd sound file formats that will probably never be supported, gmb's intent is not to play every file format, but to make the best use of the metadata of your library.