Internal GStreamer Problem; file a bug

[David Gordon]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

I am importing a variety of MP3s created in Audacity. Many of the files are importing correctly but certain files are giving the Internal GStreamer Problem. I am using version 9.04 of Ubuntu and Rhtyhmbox 9.04.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.0-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Could you add an example to the bug or open directly the bug to http://bugzilla.gnome.org where the people writting the code will read it?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Jeremiahwuzza (jeremy-creative-afternoon)]

I recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 - this was a new install on a new drive on a Compaq PIII. My problem is with Rhythmbox/Gstreamer. When I try to import any music file from a mounted windows share using Samba the application trundles for a while then announces an import error with the comment:
"Internal GStreamer Problem; file a bug"
This problem is exclusively with Rhythmbox. Alsa Player and Movie Player import and play files from the windows share with no problems. All three windows shares can be accessed for both read and write using Samba for all other applications.

I have done complete reinstalls of Rhythmbox (0.12.0) and Gstreamer (0.10) with no improvement.
This problem did not occur with the previous version of Ubuntu (and RBox and Gst).
I have no idea what to do next. This is a major problem for me as one of the main uses of this computer is as a music player.
The previous versions of the program(s) are not available for this distro.
This problem is not limited to MP3s. Rhythmbox will not import WAV files either (although Alsa and Totem will). I have searched the web and found several references to this bug, but no solutions. I am not sure what other information you want but please let me know.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug needs to be sent to GNOME by somebody having the issue

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Would also be nice to try on karmic and see if it's buggy there too

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of GStreamer is available in both Lucid and Maverick and we are wondering if this is still reproducible in any of those versions, May you please test and give us of feedback about it? Thanks in advance.

[Derek H. Killian (dhkillian)]

Hi Pedro
Running Lucid, RhythmBox 012.8.
Extracted tracks from a CD. Songs listed in RhythmBox library with Track No, Genre, Year, Quality missing. When I try and add the through the properties menu item on the right mouse button, it allows me to add genre and year, but nothing else. The screen then greys and I get the window with "Internal Gstreamer problem. File a bug.

Hope you can help.
Kind regards and God bless

[Blindulo (blindulo)]

Hi there.

I'm on Lucid (10.4 LTS) and also running RythmBox 0.12.8, I have no idea which version of Gstreamer I'm using but I have a receipt for recreating the bug.

download this torrent: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4899523/Green_Day_-_Discography__All_Albums (it has a lot of songs without artist and album infos) ... import them to RythmBox ... and as they show up in the unknown artist mark them and indicate "Green day" as artist ... this gives error boxes abundant ... some say: "Error while saving song information - Internal GStreamer problem; file a bug" some say:Error while saving song information - Unable to create tag-writing elements"

I hope this helps - I'll find another discography as the work of rearanging all is too much for lacy little me :) ... enjoy the work ;)

[Gary M (garym)]

@Blindulo, @Derek H. Killian :

This bug report was for a gstreamer error when importing files in rhythmbox under jaunty (9.04).

Bug #622051 covers "Error while saving song information - Internal GStreamer problem; file a bug" arising from editing tags in rhythmbox under lucid (10.04) & maverick beta (10.10).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gstreamer0.10 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]