[Bug 36725] Re: can't play .flac files with Rhythmbox in Ubuntu Dapper

[Matt Zimmerman]

What a terrible user interface.  Anyway I have your file now, and indeed rhythmbox won't play it.  However, if I simply decompress it and recompress it, with flac -d followed by flac, it plays fine.

filea.flac: FLAC audio bitstream data, 16 bit, stereo, 44.1 kHz, length unknown
fileb.flac: FLAC audio bitstream data, 16 bit, stereo, 44.1 kHz, 5842944 samples

Perhaps gstreamer doesn't like flac files which don't declare their length?
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can't play .flac files with Rhythmbox in Ubuntu Dapper
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36725