Banshee doesn't play anything

[Chirea Mircea]

Binary package hint: banshee

Happy New Year everyone!

I've just installed Banshee yesterday, because I'm not too fond of Amarok, and to my surprise, it doesn't play anything. A user on the IRC channel, crimsun, tried to help me and told me to try to play the file directly with gstreamer, with this command: "GST_DEBUG=3 gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///home/mircea/a.ogg >&foo.txt". I pasted the "foo.txt" file (here: http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/50183/) and told me that there was nothing that would make Banshee barf in there, so I came here.

Basically, I can't play my music with Banshee, and I have only OGG Vorbis files. Any ideas?

Thank you very much!

[Chirea Mircea (desolator)]

Hmm, it seems that Totem can't play OGG files as well (they appear to be playing, but there's no sound and I can't adjust the volume). I bet other gstreamer-based players can't as well. I really don't know what the cause might be.

[Chirea Mircea (desolator)]

Heh, to my surprise, when Installed OSS v4 with my script (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=655100), I tried to see if Banshee works. So it's really not a Banshee problem, or a Totem one (though I installed the xine variant of it), it's an ALSA one, and as I can't have more than 2 sound sources pumping at a time (one directly, one via alsa-oss), Banshee couldn't play. But as OSS can handle multiple sources nicely, I have no problem.

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

OK, so no Banshee bug here. Does one need to be opened for ALSA, or are you good with OSS now?

[Chirea Mircea (desolator)]

I'm well with OSS, and I'm pretty sure this is a known issue with ALSA. Thanks!