audacious 1.3.2 dysfunction with audacious-plugins 1.3.5

ExecutorElassus

just re-emerged both of the above packages, but i still get this error that it is unable to open ogg and flac files. the plugins are enabled. in the playlist, it shows the filename as audiofile.ogg?xspf?xspf. same for flac.

this seems to be a new problem, and i heard that flac had just moved around some of its directories. could this be the problem? or is it something else?

thanks,

EE

01mf02 · Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:53 pm Post subject:

Could it be that you have an old (maybe manual) installation lying around somewhere? Have you tried deleting your ~/.config/audacious and ~/.local/share/audacious directories?

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:53 am Post subject:

deleted both. no change.

arrgh!

01mf02 · Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject:

Hmmm ... I would remove audacious and audacious-plugins, remerge them, then maybe run a revdep-rebuild just to be sure and see if the problem persists.

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject:

did that. no change.

arrgh!

Magistrat · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 31

I do have the same problem but it's more of a crawling process. Also it affects all files, not only flac and ogg.
For some reasons and somehow some entries change from "filename.mp3" to "filename.mp3?xspf" and audacious doesn't play them anymore. i then need to remove the entry and re-add it and everything is fine again.
This would be strange enough, but the randomness in this process is even more iritating. you can listen to 3 files in a row, then 2 are mysteriously changed and so on. Haven't tested older audacious releases yet though.
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lefsha · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject:

Same problem here.

After Installing the old version (1.2.2) the problem is gone.
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tundra · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 97

Arrgh! I am having audacious-plugins-1.3.5 issues too, but somewhat different from what is described here. It can't successfully load playlists! I can create playlists and play them OK, but if I save them and reload it fails to find the music files. It seems to prepend the full path to the playlist file to that of the file it wants to play. That is, the filename it complains about looks like

/full/path/list.xspf/other/path/music.mp3

Even the playlist.xspf file it creates on exit gets the same treatment, so it won't play anything on startup, although I have on older playlist.xspf from audacious-plugins-1.2.5 that works just fine if I copy it into ~/.config/audacious before starting audacious. I have the same problem as above, though, if I try to manually load playlists made with 1.2.5 from within audacious. So aside from putting my playlists in the config directory before starting, I have no way of playing them! What is going on?

Oh, and while I am here, can I import xmms playlists into audacious? There must be something simple I am missing, but I can't figure out how to do it.

TheCarNinja · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:56 am Post subject:

The audacious-plugins-1.3.5 package requires the 'mad' USE flag to play mp3s.
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tundra · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 97

01mf02 · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:39 pm Post subject:

Hmmm ... could you post the output of "emerge audacious audacious-plugins -pv" here?

tundra · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 97

01mf02 · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:29 am Post subject:

Hmmm ... I have no idea what could be wrong here to be honest - could you show us the contents of a playlist file you can't load?

tundra · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 97

A playlist from 1.2.5 looks like this:

01mf02 · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject:

Is there anything printed on the console? I suspect another part of your system being responsible now because I've never heard of such an issue with Audacious before - does revdep-rebuild change anything? Are you running a recent system?

tundra · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 97

I cannot find any messages that seem relevant anywhere. I have an up-to-date system, and run revdep-rebuild religiously. You might be right about it being something else, as something has changed now: I no longer get the pop-up error about the screwed up filenames it was trying to load. It still does not play anything, though. But the gkrellm plugin gets my music flowing, so I am happy enough with that for now. Thanks for taking an interest. Let me know if you want to try to hunt this down more.

cyberjun · Apprentice Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 293

Hi,
Same problem here. I have observed that audacious strangely appends "?xspf" in the playlist entries when we close it.
So you can create playlist. Enqueue new files. But once to close and restart audaciuos, it will stop recognizing its own playlists.
This is crazy. The entry would be there, but due to the "?xspf" string it will not play the file. It can't read/write mp3 meta-data
as well.

I had never seen that stupid sting before and all was well. I am not sure which update has screwed this. May be not audacious.
Maybe some XML handling library. God Knows! I would surely like this stupidity to go away. I was planning to upgrade to the
arch version (1.4) but have seen bad things about it mentioned in bugs.gentoo.org.

Has anybody found some workaround? There is no bug listed about this problem.
--cyberjun

01mf02 · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject:

You may try Audacious 1.4.2, which should be in Portage quite soon ...
Tell me if it works then.

tonberrytoby · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 8 Location: München

After looking at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198820
I tried masking dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.30 , after downgrading to 2.6.28
the playlist corruption stopped to happen.