Awww - not again...!

[frotter]

Sorry about this, but just in case anyone has nowt to do on Sunday 9th May from 8-10pm..... the frankly pitiful 'Blunt Tools' posse will ride again on Phonic FM!
I expect Stoveboy will choose mostly pink floyd and Frotling will bust all our lugoles wi' his explosive cackles.  (again...)

http://www.phonic.fm/

Just clicky on the listen live doofer and join in the @rsing about. you can email in to us and we will mostly take the mick out of you for being stoopid enough to listen etc. Will be running another awesome (sic) quiz just for the giggles of it. No Googling the answers- its bad and wrong.
ANY contribution is welcome as normally, Exeter listeners are lazy no-goodniks wot cant be faffed to lift a podgy finger toward their grimy keyboards.

Ho hum.......

XX

 

[Eleanor]

Well, just having outed myself as a closet poo pipe type person which I had tried to avoid .. I suppose I'll listen ..... despite my podgy fingers and webbed feet 
I guess I'm sounding like your target audience 

[daftlad]

I am running xubuntu and have exaile.
Exaile says it needs a plugin, does anyone have any idea which one?
ta ta

[KLD]

Daftlad,

On my Debian system I had to install Exaile manually in order to try and replicate your situation, since the default media player is Totem. But then, both programs work out-of-the-box with streamed mp3 audio. Maybe you need to update your exaile, and/ or the media plugins? I believe the plugins are in several packages called "gstreamer0.10-plugins.*".

To see what you've got so far, open a terminal and type in

Code:

sudo aptitude update
aptitude search gstreamer0.10-plugins

 
This yields a list of suitable package names. Similarly,

Code:

aptitude show gstreamer0.10-plugins-good

tells you what versions are available. Note that both commands look up entries in your local copy of the package list, so the first thing you want to do when working with aptitude (or apt-get, synaptic or whatever package manager you use) is to get the most recent copy of this list with the update command (the sudo commands means you are invoking the following command as "root" user. Otherwise you'd not be able to write the new cache file.)

I'd then try to re-install the packages gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, *-good, *-bad, *-ugly, e.g.

Code:

sudo aptitude install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good

Klaus

[martin]

 

[daftlad]

Daftlad,

On my Debian system I had to install Exaile manually in order to try and replicate your situation, since the default media player is Totem. But then, both programs work out-of-the-box with streamed mp3 audio. Maybe you need to update your exaile, and/ or the media plugins? I believe the plugins are in several packages called "gstreamer0.10-plugins.*".

To see what you've got so far, open a terminal and type in

Code:

sudo aptitude update
aptitude search gstreamer0.10-plugins

 
This yields a list of suitable package names. Similarly,

Code:

aptitude show gstreamer0.10-plugins-good

tells you what versions are available. Note that both commands look up entries in your local copy of the package list, so the first thing you want to do when working with aptitude (or apt-get, synaptic or whatever package manager you use) is to get the most recent copy of this list with the update command (the sudo commands means you are invoking the following command as "root" user. Otherwise you'd not be able to write the new cache file.)

I'd then try to re-install the packages gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, *-good, *-bad, *-ugly, e.g.

Code:

sudo aptitude install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good

Klaus

I tried that and nothing. I also installed ffmpeg as per there wiki page.

  Exaile says I don't have the needed decoder, or i might need plugins to play this file. What does that mean?

Due to licensing restrictions, several common formats such as MP3 and AAC are not natively supported by Exaile's media backend, gstreamer. You can remedy the situation by finding and installing the appropriate gstreamer plugins to handle your formats. Common open-source gstreamer plugin sets are known as "-bad", "-ugly", and "-ffmpeg", or for a closed-source (but more legally stable) alternative, the fluendo plugins can be used. Most linux distros include some if not all of these plugins in their software repositories, so check what your distribution has available before trying to obtain these via other means.

I also re installed exaile and still nothing.
There is a list of plugins under preferences, the un-installed ones don't seem to have descriptions that are any use.
Any more thoughts peoples.
ta ta

[frotter]

You should just get a proper pooter with windoes on it. They just work all the time in exactly the way you need and never crash or an y ,.`¬ /. [--- = { .  ..

[daftlad]

You should just get a proper pooter with windoes on it. They just work all the time in exactly the way you need and never crash or an y ,.`¬ /. [--- = { .  ..

Shouldn't you be rehearsing or something? 
ta ta

[KLD]

Daftlad,

Which version Xubuntu are you on? And Exaile (type 'exaile --version' to find out)? Which of the gstreamer plugins did you install? (to find out, type 'aptitude show gstreamer0.10-plugins-base' , then replace -base with -good, -bad, -ugly, -really-bad.)

In the package repository list, did you select the 'non-free' section as well as 'main'?

Klaus

[daftlad]

Klaus
Under origin I have selected ALL
The version of Exaile is v0.3.0.1
Xubuntu 9.10 (10.04 doesn't work skype)

Base Version: 0.10.25-2ubuntu1.2
Good Version: 0.10.16-1ubuntu3
Bad Version: 0.10.14-4ubuntu1.1
Ugly Version: 0.10.12-1
When I typed in really bad I got this.
dell@dell-desktop:~$ aptitude show gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad
No current or candidate version found for gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad
Package: gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad
State: not a real package

Does this help?
Thanks Klaus.
ta ta

[frotter]

Awesome nerdiness guys! Hope you get it sorted, you dont want to miss the 'quiz with no theme'.

Or do you....


 

 

[KenB]

A Sensational Frot-tastic Sound   

Has the studio got a web cam?  If not Y-not?

Start a campaign for Frot-Rock on FrotFM (formerly phonicFM)



Ken

[KLD]

Goodness, are we losing the battle? Frotter's gone live, and Daftlad still can't here a peep?
The Ubuntu forums have quite a few stories about gstreamer not working with Exaile or Amarok. As I said before, on Debian Squeeze all works just fine. My versions are Exaile 0.2.14, gstreamer-xxxx-base 0.10.28-1, -good 0.10.21-1, -bad 0.10.17-1, -ugly 0.10.14-1

Anyway, maybe it's easier to try a different route: do you have another media player installed? If you use Gnome, try installing Totem. I've got version 2.28.5-3, and again, it works out of the box.

Klaus

[daftlad]

Done it.
While looking for Totem I found some gstreamer stuff under the add/remove applications thingey.
And it worked.
cheers Klaus
ta ta

[martin]

My Ubuntu 10.04 works Skype fine!