Rhythmbox Music Player problems after breezy to dapper upgrade.

[Tony K.]

Thanks,  I tried installing gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg but that did not
help.  Then installed gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly and I am back in
business.

On 6/19/06, Julio Biason <julio.biason at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/19/06, Tony K. <tony.kruse at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I upgraded my thinkpad to dapper yesterday.  I am having a couple of
> > problems.  This one I have not seen any post.
> >
> > Rhythmbox fails to play my playlists.  It cycles through each one
> > almost instantly and I get an error marker in the "now playing" column
> > by each song then proceeds though each one in the playlist or library
> > without playing.
>
> And it's probably marking them as error.
>
> On Breezy, GStreamer 0.8 used the gstreamer-mad plugin to play MP3
> files. GStreamer 0.10 (used on Dapper) uses a different name scheme
> (and that's why it broke -- it didn't upgrade the plugins).
>
> You need to install the package gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly (ugly
> because there are ugly patents on it).
>
> After that, everything should be ok.
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