transcoding should use easy codec installation when required

Bug #311296 reported by marco.pallotta
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Bug Description

Rhythmbox seems that doesn't drag & drop ogg files to my portable digital audio device (MAJESTIC PDR 130MP3/2G) that correctly supports ogg files (in fact audio files are correctly played from audio device if the music is transferred to it via nautilus).
If I launch rhythmbox with -d debug option I see, when I try to transfer ogg files to the device from rhythmbox:
"(01:36:37) [0x6aa500] [impl_paste] rb-removable-media-source.c:328: failed to find acceptable mime type for file:///home/marco/Musica/Christmas%20Songs/06%20-%20do%20they%20know%20it%20is%20christmas.ogg"
In shorts it seems that rhythmbox doesn't find acceptable mime type for the ogg file.
I also tryed to convert to ogg an mp3 file that correctly is transferred via rhythmbox but with no success.
I think that the problem is related to ogg type.

My system is Hardy Heron x86_64 and rhythmbox is version 0.11.5-0ubuntu

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

could you try to reproduce the same with intrepid ibex and see if the player works fine there? thanks.

Changed in rhythmbox:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta) wrote : Re: rhythmbox doesn't drag & drop ogg files to portable digital audio device

Pedro, in Intrepid (live) the things are worse as Rhythmbox, in Intrepid, doesn't detect my audio portable device (I opened a new bug for this - #311740).
My question is: "have somebody the same issue about drag & drop of ogg files with other audio portable device (that is, is this a rhythmbox bug or a bug related to my device)?"

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could you add an ogg example to the bug?

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marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta) wrote :

Sebastien,

I tested this issue with every ogg file.
Excuse me but haven't you my issue and do you want an ogg of mine or haven't you an ogg to test this bug?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the issue seems specific to your device, not confirming and to send to bugzilla.gnome.org by somebody having a such device

Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Incomplete → New
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the issue seems specific to your device, not confirming and to send to bugzilla.gnome.org by somebody having a such device who can reply to their questions

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marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta) wrote :

I don't know how to debug this issue as my audio device isn't detected no more in rhythmbox as I explained in post 2009-01-01 on bug #311740). I think at first we have to fix this last bug and then searching for a solution to this.

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marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta) wrote :

Sebastien, I correct myself: I have thought that I can use the Hardy live cd to debug the issue.

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marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta) wrote :

Sebastien, I also tried with the file "ubuntu Sax.ogg" (in the example directory with every Ubuntu distro) and the issue remains.
Do you think that a backtrace can help?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

there is no backtrace required there, can you play those ogg in the library?

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marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta) wrote :

Yes, I can play those ogg in the library via rhythmbox.

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Paul Elms (scifly) wrote :

Hi Marco,

I had a go at reproducing your problem using Intrepid and my music player which is not the same as yours (it is a sansa clip). I *could* reproduce it when I removed the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse package from my system. Can you confirm if you have this package installed, and if not, install it from the multiverse repository, then try to drag and drop an ogg file again.

Note, that it has to be gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse (from multiverse!), gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly (from Universe) is not sufficient.

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Michel D'HOOGE (michel-dhooge) wrote :

I have an iriver E100 and here are the results of my investigations:

In UMS mode, I can transfer ogg files to my player, even when the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse is not installed. And the files remain ogg on my player.

In MTP mode, without the ugly-multiverse plugin, I can't transfer ogg files: the mouse pointer changes to a +, but nothing happens. With the plugin, I can transfer ogg files, BUT they are converted to MP3!

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Michel D'HOOGE (michel-dhooge) wrote :

Forgot to mention: I'm still with Intrepid (Gnome+KDE4). Didn't switch to beta jaunty.

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Paul Elms (scifly) wrote :

This bug is described in the upstream bug report found here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520209

Rhythmbox should warn if some drag and drop operations are not possible because there is no mp3 encoder installed, or ideally offer easy codec installation.

There is a seperate issue here where some media players and their supported formats are not detected correctly by hal, but that is not a rhythmbox bug.

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Unknown → New
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marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta) wrote :

Paul, Pedro, I don't think the problem is the same of upstream bug report as I have the issue with mp3 encoder installed.

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marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta) wrote :

I can confirm the same issue on Jaunty either with mp3 encoder installed or not.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Marco, Feel free to open a new bug report on the upstream BTS -> bugzilla.gnome.org .

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marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta) wrote :

I opened a new bug report on the upstream and attached to this bug (I couldn't be able to select rhythmbox as "affected project" as it is already selected)

Changed in bugzilla.gnome.org:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in bugzilla.gnome.org:
importance: Unknown → Undecided
status: New → Invalid
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Mu Blinking (mu.blinking) wrote :

On Karmic, when I drag & drop an ogg file to the ipod, nothing happens. There is no error message, which is annoying.

Running rhythmbox with --debug in a terminal produces the log message "failed to find acceptable mime type".

Installing gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse resolves the issue.

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enderdsus7 (trent-jacobs) wrote :

I see the same behavior as Mu Blinking (post #20) with Sansa e280 and rhythmbox in Karmic. Installation of gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse resolves the issue.

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Mathieu MD (mathieu.md) wrote :

Thanks Mu Blinking, installing gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse did solve this issue still here in Rhythmbox 0.12.8.

Rhythmbox should at least display a warning when trying to drag&drop unsupported files from Music to a Device, and at best it should suggest to install missing plugins package(s).

summary: - rhythmbox doesn't drag & drop ogg files to portable digital audio device
+ transcoding should use easy codec installation when required
Changed in rhythmbox:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: New → Fix Released
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