Rhythmbox will not play M3U playlists

[Sean Welton]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

I have a media server at home, running GNUMP3D, which serves M3U files to clients and streams the playlists to said client in a program such as iTunes. Today, from work, I tried downloading an M3U file to play in rhythmbox. When rhythmbox tries to open the M3U file, it says that it needs to search for a text/uri-list decoder, then fails to find one. Because of this, it never actually plays the contents of the M3U file. If you drag the M3U file into the playlists section of the sidebar, its name shows up as "-" and no music shows up in the playlist.

I know that the M3U files from my server are working fine, since I can open them in a text editor, and see their contents. They also play properly in Totem and iTunes.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 29 16:27:23 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.5-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sean Welton (spwelton)]

Thanks, I have filed a bug report at the upstream bugzilla site.

Sean

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you give the upstream bug number so we can watch it?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

upstream bug is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600077 ; linking the report.

[Sean Welton (spwelton)]

Yep, that is the correct upstream bug. I just copy-pasted the one from here.

[Sean Welton (spwelton)]

So, I have not even heard back from the upstream system, other than the automated report of the bug...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there is thousand of bugs and only few volunteers working on their free time you might not get a reply before a while