no indication when plugins are needed to play mp3 files

[Martin Pool]

Binary package hint: banshee

With Banshee installed into a clean Karmic install, it just displays a little orange X icon next to mp3 files. It can play oggs with no problems so I presume this is because it doesn't have a plugin for this format. Unlike other Ubuntu programs, it doesn't give me a dialog to install the missing software.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun May 31 23:24:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: banshee 1.4.3-4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-6.7-generic
SourcePackage: banshee
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-6-generic i686

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

Have you actually tried to click (or double click) on the song and then see if banshee shows any dialog? My banshee setup is not working otherwise I would have checked it myself.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

2009/6/2 Onkar Shinde <email address hidden>:
> Have you actually tried to click (or double click) on the song and then
> see if banshee shows any dialog? My banshee setup is not working
> otherwise I would have checked it myself.

Yes, I tried that. Nothing happened: no message, it just doesn't
play. I was hoping there would be a dialog at least telling me the
error, better yet leading into installation. In previous releases you
did get a dialog, and I think you got a new section in the sidebar
labelled 'errors'.

--
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462088

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

This needs to be fixed in Banshee is going by default in UNE

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

I cannot reproduce this in Banshee in Oneiric.