Comment 11 for bug 602727

I have been having this same problem since around the time im guessing pithos moved away from libpiano, Pithos is most excelent, but the proxy support is flawed/inadequete. I must use pithos through a socks proxy, so i the past i was able to have no problem with using proxychains to proxychians pithos through a socks proxy.. but after some recent pithos update i started having this issue, I can confirm removing the global proxy from gnome once again allowed pithos to work fine with proxychains, but this doesnt help me because i must keep the gnome global proxy setting as it is (set to a socks proxy) for chrome and some other apps. I also found this same problem trying to use pithos with its integrated HTTP proxy field and a known working HTTP proxy on my own server. It resulted in these same errors, again if i turn off global proxy in gnome it is once again working. Is it likely that this will be resolved soon? or is there some way to revert to an old build of pithos, I have tested all these complications with pianobar, Pianobar works fine with proxychains and proxy set in global proxy... so i have had to revert to pianobar for the time being... I think the problem is with gstreamer somehow breaking out of proxychains wrapping, and finding the http_proxy environment variable set, using that, or finding it not set, using the global proxy. What is odd is even with the HTTP proxy set inside pithos, gstreamer stops using it after the first song if a global proxy is set... and (i think) since it is socks in my case, and gstreamer doesnt like socks, it fails...