Cannot play the default radio stations

[Carthik Sharma]

HI,

I cannot seem to play the default radio stations in Rhythmbox.
http://librarian.launchpad.net/3994790/rb.png provides a screenshot showing the only radio station that plays is "Virgin Classic Radio".

carthik@saramago:~/launchpad$ rhythmbox

(rhythmbox:21509): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to start mDNS browsing

(rhythmbox:21509): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: do_next_idle: Unhandled error: Unknown playback error

[Jens Fursund (dlai)]

I usually get the error which is displayed in the screenshot, when haven't done:

apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Could you run "rhythmbox -d" and note if there is any message about that?

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Here's the Rhythmbox log when run with $rhythmbox -d > rhythmbox.log 2>&1

Thanks, Sebastien.

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

I use Dapper:

carthik@saramago:~/launchpad$ apt-cache policy rhythmbox && apt-cache showpkg rhythmbox
rhythmbox:
  Installed: 0.9.3.1-0ubuntu9
  Candidate: 0.9.3.1-0ubuntu9
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.3.1-0ubuntu9 0
        500 http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu dapper/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Package: rhythmbox
Versions:
0.9.3.1-0ubuntu9(/var/lib/apt/lists/ubuntu.cs.utah.edu_ubuntu_dists_dapper_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status)

Reverse Depends:
  ubuntu-desktop,rhythmbox
  edubuntu-desktop,rhythmbox
  rhythmbox-applet,rhythmbox 0.8.6
  meta-ul-desktop-base,rhythmbox
  gnome,rhythmbox 0.9.2
  gdesklets-data,rhythmbox
  ubuntu-desktop,rhythmbox
  rhythmbox-dbg,rhythmbox 0.9.3.1-0ubuntu9
  edubuntu-desktop,rhythmbox
Dependencies:
0.9.3.1-0ubuntu9 - gconf2 (2 2.12.1-4ubuntu1) libart-2.0-2 (2 2.3.16) libatk1.0-0 (2 1.9.0) libaudiofile0 (2 0.2.3-4) libavahi-client3 (2 0.6.0) libavahi-common3 (2 0.6.9) libavahi-glib1 (2 0.6.0) libbonobo2-0 (2 2.13.0) libbonoboui2-0 (2 2.5.4) libc6 (2 2.3.4-1) libcairo2 (2 1.0.2-2) libdbus-1-2 (2 0.60) libdbus-glib-1-2 (2 0.60) libesd-alsa0 (18 0.2.35) libesd0 (2 0.2.35) libexpat1 (2 1.95.8) libfontconfig1 (2 2.3.0) libfreetype6 (2 2.1.10-1) libgconf2-4 (2 2.13.5) libgcrypt11 (2 1.2.2) libglade2-0 (2 1:2.5.1) libglib2.0-0 (2 2.10.0) libgnome-keyring0 (2 0.4.3) libgnome2-0 (2 2.8.0) libgnomecanvas2-0 (2 2.11.1) libgnomeui-0 (2 2.13.0) libgnomevfs2-0 (2 2.13.92-0ubuntu4) libgnutls12 (2 1.2.5) libgpg-error0 (2 1.1) libgpod0 (0 (null)) libgstreamer0.10-0 (2 0.10.5) libgtk2.0-0 (2 2.8.0) libhal1 (2 0.5) libice6 (0 (null)) libjpeg62 (0 (null)) liblaunchpad-integration0 (2 0.0patch26) libmusicbrainz4c2a (2 2.1.2) libnautilus-burn3 (0 (null)) libnotify1 (0 (null)) liborbit2 (2 1:2.10.0) libpango1.0-0 (2 1.12.2) libpng12-0 (2 1.2.8rel) libpopt0 (2 1.7) libsm6 (0 (null)) libsoup2.2-8 (2 2.2.92) libtasn1-2 (2 0.2.13) libtotem-plparser1 (0 (null)) libx11-6 (0 (null)) libxcursor1 (4 1.1.2) libxext6 (0 (null)) libxfixes3 (0 (null)) libxi6 (0 (null)) libxinerama1 (0 (null)) libxml2 (2 2.6.24) libxrandr2 (0 (null)) libxrender1 (0 (null)) zlib1g (2 1:1.2.1) dbus (0 (null)) gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs (0 (null)) gstreamer0.10-plugins-base (0 (null)) gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (0 (null)) libgstreamer0.10-0 (0 (null)) gstreamer0.10-alsa (16 (null)) gstreamer0.10-audiosink (0 (null)) scrollkeeper (0 (null)) yelp (0 (null)) avahi-daemon (0 (null)) gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly (0 (null))
Provides:
0.9.3.1-0ubuntu9 -
Reverse Provides:

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Does "gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=http://ubuntu.hbr1.com:19800/ambient.ogg" works fine for you?

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Yes, that works fine:

carthik@saramago:~$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=http://ubuntu.hbr1.com:19800/ambient.ogg
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: audioclock4

[unclben (red117+launchpad)]

I have the same problem described by Carthik. Sebastien's test file worked fine for me, as well.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've forwarded that upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353832

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Upstream comment:

 Comment #6 from Jonathan Matthew (rhythmbox developer, points: 18)
2006-09-10 08:52 UTC [reply]

The streams on hbr1.com seem to give HTTP 404 responses for a while when the
stream changes. I just observed http://ubuntu.hbr1.com:19800/trance.ogg doing
this for about a minute at the end of a track. According to various mailing
list archives, the http://ogg.tv-radio.fr:1441/encoderfmusiques.ogg stream does
something similar.

Availability of these streams is completely out of our control, so I'm closing
this bug as NOTGNOME.

[istoyanov (istoyanov)]

I can confirm this bug on an up-to-date Dapper Drake system. The only difference from the already reported problem is that I finally get a dialog window, with some strange text along "unknown playback error", that I cannot close. The main rhythmbox window also doesn't respond and I have to kill the application forcefully.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The default list of radios has been updated on edgy, marking fixed. Feel free to reopen if you still get that problem