[FC3] No mp3 activity at any cost

Brian Fahrlander brian at fahrlander.net
Sat Dec 18 17:29:50 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 11:02 -0600, Kenny Gow wrote:

> >     Ah; ok.  I yanked it all, loaded from base+freshrpms and it can read
> > an mp3 _file_ just fine.  (Ten more files added to the library...)
> > 
> >     Now, I'm having trouble using it to decode streams from online
> > services like shoutcast and WLSAM.com.  Something about "decoder or
> > demux not found".
> > 
> >     The URL's I'm trying are:
> > 
> > http://abcrad.sc.llnwd.net:12015/listen.pls
> > 
> > http://shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=6929&file=filename.pls
> > 
> >     Or maybe this is some kinda whacked-out RB problem?
> > 
> >     Is anyone able to use RB ("Music Player") to hear these under FC3?
> > 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> First, let me say that I really want to like Rhythmbox music
> player, but it often doesn't work right. Seems every other
> update seems to work, sort of. The version I have right now
> can't scan my music folders properly, hanging after
> getting about 50% of the files loaded.....
> 
> BUT, the version of rhythmbox I have is:
> 
> $ rpm -q rhythmbox
> rhythmbox-0.8.8-1

    Rats; me, too.  Maybe there's a newer version on their site?

> and, whaddya know, those two Shoutcast links you posted
> above play just fine in rhythmbox. And other Shoutcast links
> seem to play just fine.
> 
> Perhaps you need to upgrade rhythmbox?

    Would, if I could; will if I can.  It's also possible some kind of
configuration thing is messed up.

    Here's the kicker: when I clicked on the URLs above, Firefox opened
***MOVIE PLAYER*** and one of them worked.  Go figure.

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