emerge rhythmbox fails

arifmamdani · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 21 Location: St. Paul, MN

Trying to emerge rhythmbox on a fairly new Gnome2 installation, and I'm getting this as an error -- anyone have any idea how to resolve this?

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arifmamdani · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 21 Location: St. Paul, MN

Yeah, saw the mask, but figured I'd try emerging it anyway. . .
thanks

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asimon · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 2:16 pm Post subject:

Don't waste your time with rhythmbox. It's just not usable yet. Rhythmbox 0.2.1 freezes when I feed to it my music folders. And the cvs snapshot from today which I wanted to try out crashes whenever I press 'play'. The GUI looks nice (like that of iTune from Apple) but it can't play music yet ;-)

Cheers,
Andreas

sisob · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 3:32 pm Post subject:

To run rb - you need:

Rhythmbox and monkeysound from cvs.
Mad mp3 decoder
gstreamer 0.4 configured in such a way that it will actually play
mp3's with the gst-player program.

NOTHING ELSE IS LIKELY TO WORK

especially not the latest tar.gz version of rb

It's no small challenge - I've gotten everything except gstremer working - if i get it going i'll let y'all know
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asimon · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 3:41 pm Post subject:

orangegoblin · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 5

it seems that the mjpegtools ebuild has got a problem with some quicktime libraries. try to compile mjpegtools without quicktime support.

arifmamdani · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 21 Location: St. Paul, MN

arifmamdani · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 21 Location: St. Paul, MN

just tried it again, here's what I get now:

Spark · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 87

Can somebody tell me, if this application is really exciting?

I mean, is it really usefull to manage and play my music files or is it more usefull for people who do a lot with ripping and burning audio CD's? I might rip some CD's but I got no burner, so I'm wondering if I should look forward to this app to become usefull or if it's not of interest for me.

I got a version working but it crashed when giving a folder as lib source so I could only add single mp3 files and then play them, not really comfortable.
Will it be more interesting than xmms for simple audiofile managing and playing? I don't know iTunes, so the constant references to this app don't help me.

credmp · Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 6:27 am Post subject:

Another interesting app might be apollo... not as spiffy gui as rb, but still

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dvNuLL · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 56 Location: Seattle

Okay first off u need to compile gst-plugins withough flac and mjpegtools

Once you have done that you need to get the MAD mp3 decoder ( http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/ )

Once you have done that get monkey-sound and rhythmbox from gnome cvs

That will compile.

One more thing. For gst-plugins to compile make sure you dont have a config.h file in /usr/include/aviplay

dvNuLL

asimon · Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 1:16 pm Post subject:

Okay, now I have Rhythmbox 0.3.0 running. I used the BRANCH-RELEASE-0_4_0 of gstreamer and gst-plugins (without mpjegtools support), and cvs head for monkey-sound and rhythmbox. It even plays sounds. Rhythmbox needed around 6-7 minutes to build it's music database. It saves the metainfo in some xml file, which seems to lead to very bad performance and scalability. Startup time for me is around 5 minutes! Unusable. Now I know why they haven't made a release since months ;-)

crevette · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 7:41 am Post subject: problems too

I tried to compile monkey-media (0.5) and rhythmbox (0.3) from www site's tarball...
monkey-media compile successfully but when i do a configure for rhythmbox, I receive this message.
>
monkey-media >= 0.5.0... Package monkey-media was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `monkey-media.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>

How can I add this variable

Thanks
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rac · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 7:45 am Post subject: Re: problems too

How about:

crevette · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 8:08 am Post subject: Hoooups (in french)

Yes My post was moving around because, i realize that instead of reply I click on new topic button....
so I delete it and I reply to this post
sorry
:oops:

thanks for your help
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Spark · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 87

Did anyone get RB 3.0 working? It compiled for me but crashs whenever I hit play. I bet the problem is with gstreamer or monkeysound. I guess nobody has any usefull hints? I really like the app, not beeing able to play is a minor letdown though.