The name of the banshee stream in the sound preferences contains the word "mono" which is misleading

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

Binary package hint: banshee

I am using banshee version 1.4.3-5. In the sound preferences (accessed e.g. from gnome-volume-control) I see its stream listed as "ALSA plug-in [mono]". As there is also only one slider there, I was puzzled about "why is it not stereo?". The name should be changed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 22 12:09:54 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: banshee 1.4.3-5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-10.12-generic
SourcePackage: banshee
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-10-generic i686

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Wednesday 22,July,2009 06:13 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: banshee
>
> I am using banshee version 1.4.3-5. In the sound preferences (accessed
> e.g. from gnome-volume-control) I see its stream listed as "ALSA plug-in
> [mono]". As there is also only one slider there, I was puzzled about
> "why is it not stereo?". The name should be changed.
Install gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio, uninstall gstreamer0.10-alsa, and
you're good to go. Then it'll show up as "Banshee" in the volume control.

  affects ubuntu/banshee
  status invalid
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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

I have both of them because the system installed them :) But perhaps gstreamer0.10-alsa is not going to be installed by default in karmic? Could you clarify this please?

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

It seems that Gstreamer *does* use its PulseAudio backend by default, if
it exists. This means that you should not see this bug on a fresh
installation, but only if you have customized your Gstreamer backend in
gstreamer-properties before. To set this right, open your run dialog,
and type "gstreamer-properties". Set the 'Default Output' plugin to
'Autodetect' or 'PulseAudio Sound Server'. I'm hence marking this invalid.

  affects ubuntu
  status invalid

--
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

Not working for me in up-to-date karmic, but I think the bug should be
in mono or whatever. I have to check with a daily live but not this
week. Marking as incomplete for now.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.
There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test the current Ubuntu version (10.10). If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #>, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

Unfortunately I had at some point to decide that ubuntu was not what I thought. This was because of this bug

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/402767

Yes I know that you might not understand.

Anyways. Entropy has been wasted on this bug. Either let it expire and forget that you may have a small usability problem, or take 5 minutes, install banshee and check the name of the stream in gnome sound preferences. Up to you.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

This bug report is being closed since all newer installations (since Jaunty I believe), now use PulseAudio, which makes gnome-volume-control show the name of the Application using sound. The "mono" comes from the application mono which banshee is built on, and it no longer seems to be a problem. Thank you for reporting this to us, and please feel free to report any other bugs you may find, and good luck! :)