[Bug 378151] [NEW] Missing the decoders for the WAV files, FLAC and others

[Adrian Fita]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: liquidsoap

Hello. I was having trouble testing the speech synthesis in liquidsoap
0.3.8.1+2-1 so I headed to the IRC channel to sort this out. Iwas trying
something basic like liquidsoap "out(single('say:Hello.'))" and couldn't
make it work. Then I tried the time: liquidsoap --debug
"out(single('time:Hello. The time is @.'))" and got this output:

2009/05/19 02:14:43 >>> LOG START
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [protocols.external:3] Didn't find "ufetch"
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [protocols.external:3] Found "/usr/bin/wget"
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [main:3] Liquidsoap 0.3.8.1
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [single:3] "time:Hello. The time is @." will be queued.
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [threads:3] Created thread "generic queue #1" (1 total)
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [root:3] Waking up active nodes...
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [source:4] src_3140 gets up
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [source:4] src_3139 gets up
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [source:4] src_3137 gets up
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [source:4] src_3138 gets up
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [protocols.say:3] Synthetizing "Hello. The time is @." to "/tmp/sayd344b9.wav"
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [ao:4] Enabling caching mode (active source)
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [threads:3] Created thread "root" (2 total)
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [threads:3] Created thread "ao_playback" (3 total)
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [root:3] Broadcast starts up!
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [src_3139:3] switch to src_3138
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [decoder:4] Trying VORBIS decoder for "/tmp/sayd344b9.wav"
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [decoder:4] Trying MP3 decoder for "/tmp/sayd344b9.wav"
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [format.mp3:2] Mime type for /tmp/sayd344b9.wav is not valid: audio/x-wav
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [decoder:3] Unable to decode "/tmp/sayd344b9.wav"!
2009/05/19 02:14:43 [protocols.say:3] Synthetizing "Hello. The time is @." to "/tmp/say3458d9.wav"

It seems that there is no decoder for WAV files. And indeed there isn't:

liquidsoap --list-plugins | grep -A20 'audio file formats'
+ audio file formats
 Method to read audio files.
 + MP3
  (no doc)
 + VORBIS
  (no doc)
+ audio file formats (duration)
 Methods to extract duration from a file.
 + MP3
  (no doc)
 + VORBIS
  (no doc)

The developer of liquidsoap on IRC told me that there is a typo in the
Makefile of the Ubuntu package that prevents building the WAV decoder.

Please repair this package as this is the same version in both Ubuntu
8.10 and 9.04 and a lot of people will have problems with it until
Ubuntu 9.10 with liquidsoap 0.9.0 comes out.

** Affects: liquidsoap (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Missing the decoders for the WAV files, FLAC and others
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