Rhythmbox ask me to install wma audio codec (which is already installed) each time it tries to index a new wma file, even if I click on "cancel"

[Nicolas DERIVE]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

When indexing, each time I start rhythmbox, it founds some tracks in wma (not all, because it doesn't complain which other ones) which need to install a new codec (according to him, but I already can play wma files). It asks me, I click on "search", it doesn't found a "windows media audio decoder" (Aucun paquet trouvé avec les greffons requis, Les greffons requis sont : Décodeur Windows Media Audio). I click on "confirm" and it ask me for the same thing it can't found for another file in the same situation, more than 20 times ! There should be a mechanism which, when it doesn't find a codec some time, doesn't ask again for the same one, until closed or until I update the packages list. Same situation if I click on "cancel" instead of searching the plugin. It's a quite boring problem with a huge music library.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: c4273c0f4f2b8d26cd6bf31cadfd2912
CheckboxSystem: a871981cb5bdf4d6ebd55be46becf77e
Date: Thu Mar 11 12:07:50 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.7-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

For the codec detection problem part, seems to happen with lossless wma files. But maybe it should be better to fix the "codec asking loop" which should apply to people which haven't universe enabled (because they don't want) or don't want to install some non-free codecs it may propose to install.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better, however the report is missing some information, may you please run rhythmbox as: rhythmbox --debug &> rhythmbox-debug.txt ; perform the steps to reproduce the bug and attach that resulting log file to the report? Thanks in advance!.

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

Hello Pedro, here is the debug file you were asking for.

Make it new again from incomplete, as I provided it.

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

Some new about this ? It happens every time I launch Rhythmbox, and might be a bit boring for some people which is not an Ubuntu tester...

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

Add the upstream bug which seems the same like this one

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

seems to be a gstreamer plugins base issue.

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

Someone to deal with this annoying problem ?

[blair (trrichard)]

Any one had luck with this yet? I have not have success in rebuilding gstreamer.