[feisty] cannot import wav in the library

[Nicolò Chieffo]

Binary package hint: banshee

banshee 0.12.0+dfsg-1ubuntu1

I cannot import wav files into my library. When I try to do so I get this errors:
wav_file_name1.wav (audio/x-wav) | wav_file_name1.wav
wav_file_name2.wav (audio/x-wav) | wav_file_name2.wav
...

[tim (pastorti)]

I have the same problem. This is a huge disadvantage. Anybody have a fix?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? May you try to reproduce it with Gutsy? You may grab a CD Image from here: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this report for now, feel free to re open it if you can reproduce it with Gutsy, thanks.

[distortion (distortion20)]

Was there a resolution to this problem.

I am a new Ubuntu user. and am trying to install banshee to replace iTunes.

I am having the same problem as described above getting wav. files to load into my banshee library.

In my case I am taking the files from a directory on my HD

I have installed the gstremer plugins. "Ugly" set, "ffmpeg", and the "Bad" set for Acc, waveset etc.

but the ,WAV files still error out.

Thanks

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

distortion, no real resolution, just a lack of information. With which version of Ubuntu/Banshee have you been able to confirm this bug? And can you attach the output of 'banshee --debug' also?

[distortion (distortion20)]

I am using fiesty fawn.

I have not done debug. I have only been a user for a week.

Can you tell me how to run debug on banshee ?

I've attached a screen capture if that helps.

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

You can report some debug output by opening a terminal and running the command 'banshee --debug'. This will spit out more output that may explain where the problem is happening.

[distortion (distortion20)]

Andrew,

This is the result of the banshee debug.

To get this, I started Debug, and when Banshee came up, I tried to
import a folder with .WAV files.

Was this correct ?

Thanks for your help.

Dan Iovino

dan@dan-desktop:~$ banshee --debug
** Running Banshee in Debug Mode **
** Running Mono with --debug **
Debug: [2/22/2008 6:54:45 PM] (Loading audio profiles)
- /usr/share/banshee/audio-profiles
Debug: [2/22/2008 6:54:48 PM] (GStreamer pipeline does not run) -
audioconvert ! lame mode=4 bitrate=128 ! id3v2mux
Debug: [2/22/2008 6:54:48 PM] (GStreamer pipeline does not run) -
audioconvert ! xingenc bitrate=128 ! id3v2mux
Debug: [2/22/2008 6:54:48 PM] (GStreamer pipeline does not run) -
audioconvert ! fluwmaenc bitrate=64000 vbr=false ! fluasfmux
Debug: [2/22/2008 6:54:48 PM] (Default player engine) - GStreamer 0.10
Debug: [2/22/2008 6:54:49 PM] (Audio CD Core Initialized) -
Debug: [2/22/2008 6:54:49 PM] (Testing device for DAP support)
- /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_7830673E3067028C
Debug: [2/22/2008 6:54:49 PM] (DAP has not been added)
- /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_7830673E3067028C
Debug: [2/22/2008 6:54:50 PM] (Audioscrobbler starting protocol engine)
-
Setting IO Backend to Banshee.IO.Unix.IOConfig (unix)
Importing timer stopped: 00:00:00.7820440
Debug: [2/22/2008 6:57:05 PM] (Audioscrobbler stopping protocol engine)
-

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Yes, that's correct, although the output was enough only to help me find an upstream bug about the same behavior.

I don't have this problem on a newer version. Is it possible to test on a newer version of Ubuntu--or at least a newer copy of GStreamer and Banshee?

[distortion (distortion20)]

Andrew.

Thanks for the feedback.

I've found a work around.

Using "sound converter" I was able to convert the .WAV files to .MP3 it takes awhile( I had a lot of files) but I was then able to import the MP3's with out error.

So far it seems to be working.

Thanks again for the help

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Re-closing this since there's no more information on it. Converting the files from WAV format (at least to FLAC) is certainly a good workaround.