Rhythmbox - incompatible with gentoo?

[moosesocks]

Rhythmbox doesn't seem to run at all when built from the current tree (the process hangs before it can even display a dialog).

When manually installing from release source (a bit more recent than the version in portage), the application launches, brings up a garbled main window, as well as a dialog.

[hast]

i have some of the libraries compiled from cvs though..
media-sound/rhythmbox
Latest version available: 0.4.1
Latest version installed: 0.4.1

rhythmbox is still a little buggy at the moment as well
there seems to be a random hang when playing music, im guessing its some kind of thread deadlock.. who knows though

[moosesocks]

any alternatives?

I just want something to organize music!

[Vann]

[tibo]

[xonit]

how about xtunes or sumi ?
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[marquee]

Although I am biased (as I wrote some of the documentation for Rhythmbox), I think that there is no real alternative to 'rb'!

I have version 0.4.1 installed and working on my Gentoo system here, and have very little trouble with, and none that I didn't have on a RedHat 8.0 system! If you do have problems, then report them via Gentoo bugzilla, these will then get passed on to the rb team, if they are actually rb issues.

I think that the warning is there 'cos Gentoo is compiled from source, and the rb team have very little control on what platform people choose to use!

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[Lucas]

I have no prblem compiling rb, that works fine, just have one problem; it doesn't play music... An other problem is that I can't edit ID3 tags, just view them.

[puddpunk]

[Cleotis]

I had version 0.3 and I have now 0.41 running without any probs here...

[oldfrog]

If Rhythmbox does not play music
You can try this.
run the following command:
gst-inspect
if you do not see:
gnomevfssrc: gnomevfssrc: GnomeVFS Source
gnomevfssink: gnomevfssink: GnomeVFS Sink
Then this required plugin was not installed

To compile this plugin is pretty simple.
extract the gst-plugin tarball. You can find the tarball at /usr/portage/distfiles/gst-plugins-0.4.2.tar.gz
cd into the extracted directory
run the following commands to make just this plugin.
./configure --prefix=/usr
cd ext/gnomevfs
make
su
make install
gst-register

[foser]

gst-plugins should install gnomevfs etc. always when you have gnome in your USE. if you want a music organizer, look on. rhythmbox is way too unstable in development to be used for anything but being an oversized crashy xmms clone atm. It's UI is redesigned (and getting worse) every minor version, not to mention backend changes. With the up and coming move of gst-0.6 in portage i think we'll have to remove rhythmbox for a while (not a big loss).
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[IWBCMAN]

I have rhythmbox running with gstreamer under gnome2.2(ie. I did not use the builds posted here which make the switch to xine). It was on my machine for a while, and I have frequently updated many of the libraries which rhytmbox requires. I never could get it to work right- the program ran and I could make a list of mp3'S but only 1 out of every 10 would play, and I could not understand why. Then I read somewhere that one can simply drag an mp3 directory from nautilus into rhythmbox, I said what the hell, and I tried it. Since then Rhythmbox plays all of my mp3 files without a problem, why I don't know, my only complaint is the sucker eats up CPU time, and is not even playable when doing an emerge in the background....

of course this won't help you if rhythmbox won't even start or crashes at startup....