no mp3 support in quodlibet 0.19 [SOLVED]

[dschobel]

For some reason quodlibet is not enabling mp3 playback even though I have all the deps along with gst-plugins{good/bad/ugly}.

Upon launching it reads:

[sternklang]

Hi,

Do you have the "mad" USE flag set? That would support mp3 playback. Taking a quick look at the ebuild, I didn't see any other dependencies that would.

The 0.18 version could have been using GStreamer-0.8 instead of 0.10. The plugin distribution, and the way Gentoo handles them is different with 0.10 -- it's not enough to have the good/bad/ugly packages installed, many of the individual plugins within those packages have been broken out into separate ebuilds so a dependency on, for instance, gst-plugins-good doesn't pull in a bunch of plugins that aren't needed by a package.

I don't know why the Quodlibet folks don't like Gentoo. Maybe they got bug reports in the past from some Gentoo users with ricer-extreme CFLAGS causing problems and don't want to deal with that again. Even though many of us Gentooers don't fall into that stereotype, there are people out there who think "Gentoo is for ricers".

[dschobel]

sternklang, thanks for the informative reply!

my use flags are as follows:

[Opera]

MP3 are working fine for me, ok here we go :

[dschobel]

thanks for the info Opera, I emerged and re-emerged all those packages and still no go. Looks like I'm stuck with 0.18 for the time being :-/

[sternklang]

I looked for a bug report and came across this bug which included the following comments:

[dschobel]

Ah sternklang, you truly are a king amongst men!

I nuked my /usr/share/quodlibet folder, issued the 'emerge quodlibet' command and voila, full functionality.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[sternklang]

Glad to help!

You might want to post a comment at that bug I linked to confirming that removing that folder and emerging again fixes the problem. Confirmation will speed up getting a new ebuild out that fixes this for everyone else.

Good luck!

[RattyMan]

Just had a slightly different issue, all my music is in subfolders and nothing was being detected. Browsed to an MP3 files and that worked fine, it just wasn't seeing any music in the subfolders! I did the same, nuked the /usr/share/quodlibet folder, re-emerged and now it's all fine!

[Ahri]

Sorry to bump, but I'm still getting problems, when I run quodlibet I get is: Supported formats: mp4, wav, xiph -- no mp3s are detected in my library.

I tried merely nuking /usr/share/quodlibet and re-emerging but that didn't help.
I ran `emerge --oneshot media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad media-libs/gst-plugins-good media-libs/gst-plugins-base media-sound/quodlibet' and that didn't help either.

When I do `emerge -pv quodlibet' I get:
[ebuild R ] media-sound/quodlibet-0.23.1-r1 USE="aac dbus mad oss vorbis -alsa -esd -flac -gnome -mmkeys -musepack -trayicon" 0 kB

[RattyMan]

I would check gstreamer and see if you have the mp3 support built in correctly. Also check that you have at least gstreamer-0.10 ast I don't think that quodlibet supports 0.8 anymore (not sure on that one!)
I would try running:

[Ahri]

I just noticed I had 0.8 and 0.10 installed, so I unmerged 0.8. `gst-inspect-0.10 | grep mp3' gets me the same thing as you pretty much, I definately have gstreamer/mp3 support via mad. I could add the gnome USE as a last ditch effort but I have no will to have to configure stuff via gnome, so right now I'm running -gnome.

I'll give totem a go soon but I've not got it installed right now and I'm I'm rebuilding my system; I have some concurrent issues and feel that resolving them might clear these murky waters.

Thanks a lot for your help!